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Category: travel

  • Sydney, in the Rocks

    Well, we’re sitting in a pub in the Rocks section of Sydney, waiting for a tasty meal. Fortunately this pub has free wireless internet access, allowing us to connect with our PowerBooks and upload/download mail. Here’s a picture to tide y’all over until I can properly update this site with my trip.

  • Going to Australia

    The Great Adventure Begins… Well, I’m heading off to Atlanta and then Los Angeles and then Sydney, Australia, and then Brisbane and then back to Los Angeles, to Atlanta, and finally back home to Chattanooga. I’m hoping to have some updates while my vacation with King is still in progress, but we’ll see! You can…

  • SF 2004, Day 3

    Third Day In San Francisco Today I rested, and then wandered around Golden Gate Park and Haight Street. Another beautiful day in SanFran! Oh, and here are a couple little videos I shot: By The Lighthouse and  Cello Music on Haight Street.

  • SF 2004, Day 2

    Second Day In San Francisco On Sunday, King, Gwen and I travelled to Point Reyes to see the Lighthouse. Pictures are available. (Note that I’m just adding on new pictures after the older ones, instead of creating a new section for each day.)

  • SF 2004, Day 1

    First Day In San Francisco On Saturday, after sleeping like the dead, I went with King to the waterfront near the Ferry Building. Then, we grabbed some tasty burgers at Burgermeister, met up with Gwen back at the house, and, after I had a long nap, we went to see American Splendor at the Red Vic Movie House.…

  • A Hop, Skip, and Jump…

    A Hop, Skip, and Jump… After only 12 hours of travel, I fell – or more like crashed – asleep this morning around 2 am, California time. I left Chattanooga Friday at 3:30 pm EST on the Express Shuttle to Atlanta. I had a nice chat with the Express van driver (whose name I’ve now forgotten) – I…

  • 2004: More travel than ever

    2004 will be the year Philip Travels Much More Than Ever Before. Kicking off the year will be my annual trip next week to visit King & Gwen & Kibble in the grand city of San Francisco. And then, in April – it’s off to Sydney & Brisbane, Australia! Woo hoo! More on that later,…

  • SF 2000, Day 6

    (Due to an Earthlink/Mindspring outage the update was posted later than planned. ) I”ve updated the design of my daily updates, hoping to make it more read-able. I spent much of the day at the Macworld Expo in the Moscone Center, downtown San Francisco. It’s not as big as NAB/Las Vegas, but it certainly is…

  • SF 2000, Day 5

    It was actually overcast this morning — the first non-bright-blue-sky treatment I’ve seen since last Friday. And it rained, at least enough that I could see the raindrops; evidently this is the first significant precipitation in three weeks. By the time I left the apartment, though, the familiar blue sky had emerged. This afternoon I took a tour through the…

  • SF 2000, Day 4

    Today’s travels took me across the famed Golden Gate Bridge (The Big Red One) to Marin County (turns out it’s pronounced mare-IN). But first, we ate lunch at Joe’s Grill on Clement Street (though some people call it Bill’s Place) where I had a perfect bacon-BBQ-cheeseburger. King, his wife Gwen and I went to Muir Woods, part of the California…

  • SF 2000, Day 3

    Another day surveying the San Francisco Bay area. Today King drove us over the Bay Bridge to Oakland, then Berkeley, and then over a big hill and some twisty roads which eventually led us back to San Francisco. I visited my first California grocery store (a Safeway). And slept. (For more info on The City,…

  • New Year’s Day 2000 in SF

    New Year’s Day. First day of The Big Rollover. I’m not taking any strong stands on “New Millennium” vs. “2001 as the true mathematical heir” — it is The Big Rollover from 1999 to 2000 and that’s enough for me. For those of you just tuning in — I’m in San Francisco, California. Today King…

  • New Year’s Eve in San Francisco

    I arrived in San Francisco after some 12 hours of travel (by van to Nashville, flight to Dallas, flight to SFO). Gwen retrieved me from the airport and took me to the current Rhoton West establishment — a spacious apartment located a block from the edge of Golden Gate Park and some 10-12 blocks from…

  • Starting 2000 in San Francisco

    I’m busy packing, getting ready to head out to San Francisco for the first week of the New Year. King and Gwen are my hosts for this California adventure. Tune in to this page to check out some of the things I see & do in SanFran. Here’s where I’ll be staying. Look very closely…