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California Bound!

LinksvilleLinksville Registered User regular
edited May 2009 in Social Entropy++
I am going to be visiting my sister and her husband in San Jose, California for a month! In that time I will be visiting old friends and my former stomping grounds. However, it's been so long since I've been in the Bay Area I've pretty much forgotten what there is to do. So SE PLUS PLUS, I've come to you for help! What is there to do in the bay area? Any concerts or festivals going down that should know about? Museums, Parks, other places of interest?

Key Points:
  • I'll be in California from May 27th to June 23rd.
  • Staying with my sister and brother-in-law "near downtown San Jose."
  • My Brother-In-Law and I are planning on going to the Monterrey Bay Sea Aquarium and to the Six Flags in Vallejo.
  • I am going to be finalizing a schedule with my sister and brother-in-law when I get to California.
  • Should we meet up somewhere? I wouldn't even know how to get that organized and rolling. I guess I can post what I am going to do and when, then I'll see if I can get some of you to meet up with us.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Find an attractive girl who's angry with her father and then be everything that her dad hates.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    become an extra

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    My friend lives there. He keeps talking about how awesome San Francisco is.

    You might want to check that place out.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Everyone does at least one gig at Disney as Goofy before they make it big.

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  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    San Francisco is pretty awesome.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Well double-dumbass on you!

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  • LinksvilleLinksville Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I don't think I am tall enough to be Goofy. :oops:

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited May 2009
    poop on something of sentimental value

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    • bullet
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    • seriousness

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    You should take a week off from that and visit Southern California. Spend quantity time with Nads and the others

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Go to Santa Cruz; but not on the weekend. The boardwalk is old-timey fun and there's a couple of good beaches.

    Go to see the redwoods! If you can't go far north to the really big ones, I think probably the Santa Cruz Big Basin park is my favourite of the near-by redwood parks.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Santa Cruz is full of college burnouts. I know this as fact. Some friends from highschool went to college there.

    San Jose I don't remember much there being to since I was a kid and never went outside. But go around the bay, go to SF. Maybe you can meet the guy at the piers who is dressed in a dalmation suit.

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  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Muir Woods is also very nice, and not too far out of San Francisco.

    It gets pretty crowded, though.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Photographic evidence.
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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Weaver wrote: »
    Well double-dumbass on you!

    <3

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  • xeroismygodxeroismygod Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    BFD Festival June 6th at Shoreline(Mt. View)
    http://www.live105.com/pages/4209721.php

    June 27th Vans Warped Tour in SF

    June 17-19 Post Street Summertime Blues Festival in SF

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  • Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Oh hell yes

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  • Meta T. DustMeta T. Dust Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Link we can hang out if we go out for chinese cause I want some fucking noodles brohah.

    Also I'm not really in the bay area, its more of the desert bay area.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2009
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Well double-dumbass on you!

    <3

    Indeed.

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  • TiBTiB Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Brother in law goes to San Jose State.

    He says that the little ethnic restaurants are the best.

    Very diverse in the University area it seems

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  • xeroismygodxeroismygod Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    San Jose is full of ethnic restaurants. In fact thats what the city is know for is its eateries. SF has all the night life however. Eat in San Jose and party in SF.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNRs0RM3EEE

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  • TiBTiB Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    p.s. if you want to hang with the gays, just take the trolley there. There is no parking in The Castro... none

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  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Yeah, and you should ride the historic streetcars (not the same thing as the cable cars, though they're pretty cool, too) anyway.

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  • LinksvilleLinksville Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Thanks for the help everyone! I remember doing a lot of this stuff as a kid and having a blast, I'll be sure to check out as much as I can! Oh! I also just remembered a bunch of other stuff; The Exploratorium, The San Francisco Art Museum, are there any good historical museums in the Bay Area?

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  • xeroismygodxeroismygod Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The Tech Museum in downtown SJ.

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  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    this reminds me

    I wonder if I want to go to UCLA of Film, Television, and Theatre, or Juliard

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  • JasocoJasoco Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Linksville wrote: »
    I don't think I am tall enough to be Goofy. :oops:

    I don't think you're goofy enough to be tall. So...

    Also, I too will be going to Cal-i-for-nee. Though next year, and I will be driving. (To see the country) My sisters boyfriend will be staying out there when he goes to college and said I could visit.

    I'm not planning on coming back.

    Not that I won't. I'm just not planning on it.
    Yes I know I'm bumping a thread and the OP has already left. What? California doesn't have internet? I heard they had some.

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  • <3<3 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I want to go to the Bay Area after I graduate college.

    Hopefully I can get in to Berkeley or Stanford or UCSC for grad school.

    On a related note, I'm going to Lake Tahoe in June.

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Linksville, if you check this, you should totally keep an eye on my thread over here.

    It seems like stuff might happen.

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  • TalonTalon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    linksville hahahaha

    omg fark.com

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    linksville does in fact own

    i'm sorry you live in michigan, man

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  • TalonTalon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    let this be the official battle ringside thread

    I'm not gonna read but we need a place and this looks about as good as any

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