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We come to the end of another of our road trips and for the final treat we take a visit to Google’s main campus in Silicon Valley. We are lucky enough to experience some of their incredible technology and some tasty free food. Read the rest of Hey Google! 
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We visit the silicon valley computer history museum and see some very items tracing the history of computers from the abacus right up to the iphone and cloud. There were some incredible things including enigma machine and some massive main frame systems. Read the rest of Computer history museum
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Well you can’t be in the US on election day without being sucked into the circus. We were all glued to our TV waiting for what we expected to be a huge Hillary victory. The last few days we had started to see things in a little different, but expected a huge loss to the […] Read the rest of Make America Great Again
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On the way to San Jose we visit the Hiller Airport Museum, a heritage centre that has a interesting collection of weird and wonderful aircraft. They have a huge restoration room where volunteers rebuild old planes with incredible detail. One of the highlights was a front section taken from one of British Airway’s early 747s. […] Read the rest of Hiller Airport Museum
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We continue to explore San Francisco, visiting China Town, The Cable Car Museum, Levis Museum, Pier 39 and Fishermans Wharf and their hundreds of Seals. Lunch was as the world famous Boidin Bakery down near fishos where we enjoyed an amazing sour dough roll filled with chlli, washed down with a few of San Francisco’s […] Read the rest of Hill climbing in San Francisco
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We jumped in our ‘lovely’ Nissan Sentra and headed towards San Francisco a drive through California’s wine and farming country, taking us about an our and a half. As we get close to the city thick fog greeted us but it soon lifted to reveal a cool but sunny day. We went walking into the […] Read the rest of Sunny San Francisco
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TIme for lunch and nothing better to wash down beers than a tasty meal at a dive burger joint. We found a great one- Daves Big Burgers. How good it this- a burger on a bun in a box covered with chilli and cheese, yumee! Read the rest of It’s Chilli time
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Our second factory tour for the day took us to Budweisers Californian brewery. This huge plant produces 9 products including their two biggest sellers Bud and Bud Light. Interestingly the beer includes rice as well as barley and takes 24 days from start to finish, where some of the other big breweries we have visited […] Read the rest of Weiser drinking beer with my bud
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The first of our day of Factory tours in Fairfield California took us to the headquarters of Jelly Belly. He we saw millions of Jelly Bellys being made in what is a 14 day process. There were some pretty fun flavors including a new range of bad taste ones that were probably for halloween, including […] Read the rest of Jelly Belly Jelly Belly
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This is a cool pub in Chico California. There’s a bit of a bear theme but then again there is a bit of a every theme with heaps of weird artefacts hanging from the roof and strung to the wall. The best bit food is good and the beer is not only tasty but dirt […] Read the rest of Madison Bear ..yes Bear Garden
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We took a factory tour of Sierra Nevada Brewing, one of the pioneers or craft brewing in the USA. Now spread over 40 acres this state of the art facility was not only flash it was run entirely on solar and other environmental friendly technologies The tour finished at the tasting room where 6 of […] Read the rest of Sierra Nevada Brewery
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