This past weekend, I bought a Honda Element and we were both totally overjoyed! I had been looking for a large and dependable car for myself and for our Limitless Treasures portion of Limitless (we needed something with a big trunk so we could hall our pieces that we refurbish).
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| Mela's Cute Honda Element! Im so excited for her! |
(Sade)
My girl tends to have a enough excitement for the both of us, so after only a few minutes of riding around in her new whip, she had a Bobby Brown look in her eyes! I knew something was up in that eager little head of hers!
"Let's go on a road trip. I just want to drive!"
"Mela Seriously? You want to go on a road trip? Like, right now? *thinking, pondering, thinking* You know what, lets just do it! Wait.....where are we going?"
After New Hampshire, Las Vegas, Seattle and Portland where all considered then thrown out, we figured it would be much wiser and budget friendly (yet still spontaneous) to drive around the Bay Area, and let the city be our guide. We decided wherever we ended up, we would stay the night, buy our necessities in the morning (because we totally did not pack for this spontaneous trip) and take in the sites of that city!
So we got on the road, and did just that.
Our mini journey began in San Leandro near my home, and from there made our way to the City of San Francisco of course. Site seeing in San Francisco is always fun and interesting, even for residents of the Bay Area like ourselves. You can easily feel like a tourist, even if you live here, since there is so much to see.
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| San Francisco Pier- forgive the picture quality we were driving |
She (Mela) drove her Element through the San Francisco hills, past downtown, and over by the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, through Twin Peaks, Chinatown and then toward the Pier.
The city is so beautiful. We drove around these gorgeous sites for about an hour, and then headed back to the freeway.
Eventually we ended up on the 101 towards Half Moon Bay. The road to Half Moon Bay was pretty scary...it was dark, narrow, deserted, is easily discouraging and could cause you to turn back around and go home. However, the spontaneous spirits in both us kept going, we were too excited to see where we would end up. We continued to let the music play in the background, chat and drive.
That lead us to Highway 1, which was also pretty scary, but was a road Mela had desired to drive forever. (Keep in mind it is about 10pm at this time, so it's extremely dark).
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| People Enjoying the Beautiful Golden Gate Bridge (taken at another date) |
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| The Golden Gate Bridge (taken at another date) |
Highway 1 lead back to the city, and from there we crossed the lovely Golden Gate Bridge and entered a city that we adore, Tiburon/Belvedere. Even at night, it was so beautiful.
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| Tiburon at Night |
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| Tiburon on Sept 11, 2010( we went for a wedding a while back) |
Once we headed to Tiburon, we drove around in took in the sites of the quaint little town, and remembered the wedding we attended there a while back for a coworker of mine. It was a lovely day.
SO....I bet you all are wondering where the heck we ended our mini journey in the Element...?
(Mela)
Ok I'll give you a few hints:
1) People retire here!
2) On season 6 of Sex and the City (Sade's favorite show) "Big" moved here!
3) The wine is absolutely fabulous!
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| The beautiful.....? |
To Be Continued.....
