I'm here at De Anza and they say I have one minute to go till they cut off my access. So I'm posting THE MOST important foto.
sheila, julie, susan, kate... don't know which order, tho. I'm all in a rush.
much later.... Manilapalooza: here's a page of some pictures.... there will be even more. But not before sleep.
Morning: Well, that damn spoiler's been hanging off on the right side, and the hole for the bolt in the spoiler's been ripped through. The hell with it! Off it goes! (thanks to neighbor Roger for taking da pic!)
Okay.... now the car is washed, and the top is off... north to the Santa Barbara area to rendezvous with friends. It's been sooooo long since I drove the car as a convertible. Love it, love it, love it!!!
Once I got to Julie's, we had another go round of packing the car, including making sure that Raster, the iguana, knew what was going on. Alas, Vector got left behind. It's breeding season and they need to be kept separate till she gets "in the mood." So only Raster came along...
Raster was all hot to leave....
"Iguanapalooza! YEEHA! Let's get a move on!"
"Uh, Raster... it's not IGUANApalooza... We're going to MANILApalooza"
"What?! I thought we were going to IguanaPalooza!"
That seemed to put a whole different light on the situation:
So he tried to dart out of Julie's car. But we put him back in and he ended up riding in the back, looking out the window the whole time.
Okay! We're off!
But ya know, a little while later, during one of those quick, one last errand at the office before we go stops, he looked at me in the open car with the basking spot in the back, and I swear he had a jealous look on his face.
One more stop in Santa Barbara before heading on the road, and we got to see the typical Santa Barbara twilight...
many a time Julie and Susan have rollerbladed along that bikepath there...
looking up, the eucalyptus tree has interesting branching patterns.
and so we drove.. into the twilight, as stars came out, up U.S. 101 to San Francisco.
So.. coffee, breakfast, check email, recharge digital camera batteries, then head down the peninsula to Cupertino to meet all the Manilapaloozans.
Sorry, Raster's being sulky about the fact that it's Manilapalooza, so he's not coming.
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