Alameda

The view from Treasure Island. Click on the image to go to the photostream, if you desire...

I am staying with my good friend Andy. This is what he looks like...

So a word about shipping your equipment, if that is the route you desire to take; It may not get there.

Now you can compensate for this like I did. Give yourself some time where you start to allow equipment to arrive if there are delays. But it still is annoying, giving you just enough to worry about as you sit and wait for the packages to arrive.

So two things to learn from my trip so far. 1, keep the tracking numbers for your packages. 2, get an estimate on overall shipping time to be able to compensate for any delays in it actually arriving on time. If I were on a tight schedule, I would be very anxious and annoyed right now, instead of just mildy annoyed and inconvenienced. I mean, here I am, across the Bay from San
Francisco, but Ive got to sit here and wait for boxes.

So let's relax with some pictures from a duck pond at Crab's Cove...