Day 1 in California

This is a little break from my real estate postings. I decided to discuss some of my trip to California. I hope it might give you some ideas if you ever visit the area.

I left Ottawa at 7:15 am for my trip to San Jose. I was set to visit my good friends Jeremy and Ellin that moved to San Jose shortly after Jeremy got a job with Apple. I hadn't seen them in awhile and I had never seen the Pacific Ocean, so I was excited to get away from the grind that I do on a daily basis.

My itinerary consisted of a layover in Denver, Colorado then a flight directly to San Jose airport. Although my view from the Denver airport was limited, I was nonetheless excited to see the rockies for the first time. It turns out that John Denver was right all along as the rockies were indeed rocky.

I arrived in San Jose about 2pm local time. My first day in San Jose was a bit of a slow day. It more or less consisted of flying and then going to a local high-end mall. We did stop at a burrito place as Jeremy highly recommended this burrito to have a true taste of California. First, the burrito is very popular because of the high Mexican-American population in the area, and that this particular burrito came with Avocado, which is in any food that describes itself as Californian. The burrito was tasty, but Jeremy was disappointed as the burrito place hadn't lived up to its previous standards. Jeremy has high standards for burritos.

Saturday we didn't do too much that was exciting. Time was short, so it was just good to get oriented with Jeremy and Ellin by going to the mall and hanging out at their place. I even went to bed relatively early because I was tired from the travel and not yet used to the time change of 3 hours. I also had a big day planned for Day 2.