So we pick up after saying goodbye to Knuckles in San Jose, and we're gonna try to get back to Seattle in two days to make it in time for our conference, which is actually the real reason we were out on the West Coast to begin with. My lovely companion insisted that we dish out the extra dough for an extra driver...
...which means that it was my turn to ride shotgun and annoy the driver.
At first, it was subtle.
Then my level of annoyingness rapidly increased.
But we were both in a goofy mood.
Here we are passing through San Fran again.
And then we took USA 101 across the Golden Gate Bridge. This was one of the things I was most looking forward to, and the previous day it was super clear, but the day we actually drive over the thing, it's foggy as heck.
"Oh well" says Ritika.
This is me trying to look majestic in front of the majestic bridge. Utter failure...on both our parts.
The most interesting thing to photograph was the construction.
We left graffiti of a cliche nature.
Goodbye beautiful bay. We shall miss you.
Alright, it seems that I took over driving at this point, but that's ok. We got a new car the night before leaving and we had a choice of either getting cruise control or an auxiliary audio port so we could listen to our ipod. We decided to go for the aux port because I was getting really sick of Enrico, Brittany, and LMFAO, etc., etc. But then it turned out that there ACTUALLY WAS CRUISE CONTROL. I was so frustrated, because I didn't notice it until about 5 hours into the trip since the rental guy said the car didn't have it. Stupid. Just plain stupid.
And then we hit the redwood forests, where the roads were so twisty and windy that it didn't make sense to use the cruise control. Rrrgg.
The redwoods were awesome though. Can't believe that these have been alive for hundreds of years...before cars had cruise control. Even before cars existed at all.
For being an old guy, this tree actually smelled pretty good. I'm officially a tree-hugger now. And yeah, I didn't realize Ritika took this picture until much much later.
We hit a stretch of the coast around dusk, which made for some pretty cool colors and low lying fog.
I was going to go onto the beach, but apparently 4 or so people died here recently when a "creeper wave" swept them out to sea.
Mini-tsunamis?
My turn.
There was also a cliff nearby where I tried to get a scenic shot. Stupid red truck just sat there the whole time.
Slightly different angle...
...and you can see that somebody is already feeling attention deprived.
We spent the night in the redwoods, which was pretty sweet. There wasn't a whole lot of wind since the trees are so high.
Ritika is small, but next to a redwood, she's like a bug.
And then Ritika drove us the rest of the way back. Next time - a little look around Seattle.
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