If you’re feeling tired, make sure you either pull over to sleep or take turns with a friend.
Shorter people appreciate it when the driver’s seat can be moved forward. On that note make sure it works before the trip.
If you ask someone where Chavez Ravine is, be wary that San Francisco pigeons are the biggest Giants fans out there.
Always have money for a car wash.
If you look hard enough for a Taiyaki shop in J-town, you’re bound to find it.
Unfortunately the same can’t be said when looking for chocolate covered macadamia nuts…
Or your own taiyaki maker for that matter.
The Oakland Bay Bridge from northbound Embarcadero… breathless.
The Palace of Fine Arts is smaller than you’d expect from watching the movies.
Turtles are camera shy.
Ducks aren’t.
On an average day, two people are hit by a car in the San Francisco area.
When you almost hit NINE people, you begin to wonder if it’s because they don’t understand the concept of the traffic light – or a sidewalk.
When crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, always have at least three people.
Just because there is a diamond painted on the road, doesn’t mean it’s for carpoolers.
The V6 Mustang. For all your road trippin’ needs.
There aren’t enough Sonics on the 101. There is just no excuse.
When two African Americans and a Mexican American speeding down the freeway in the middle of the night, no one seems to mind…
Should the same trio stop for gas or an ATM then HELLO!
They sure know how to cater at a NIS America Event.
Three major articles and a professionally written “For Your Consideration” due within the end of next week. Ugh. Any ways I’m back from covering the NIS American Event up in San Francisco. I want to thank the staff at NIS America for their hospitality as well as the bartenders at Zebulon for all those orders of cranberry juice that I ordered. Finally if you’re curious about where the word bubble is located, we stopped early on at an In-N-Out over in Oxnard.
- Pedro Rodriguez
