California Drinking

There was an opportunity to stop off someplace in the US besides Minnesota on my round the world ticket, so I decided to see Tom Knapp in Palo Alto. It was like old times when I was working for Time Life. Tom would pick me up in the morning from my Tokyo flight, then we'd spend the day driving around Palo Alto and Woodside. After a nice lunch -- this time at the cafe in Woodside -- I'd usually need a nap. Then back to business, dinner and drinking. Well this time we had Greek in downtown Palo Alto. After a nice dinner and an over priced bottle of wine from Santa Barbara, Tom and I bid goodby to Mary Ellen who went home to take care of her dogs. Then Tom and I headed out for a pub crawl. We went to a Cajun place that plays house music, a micro brewery, a couple of English pubs, one with a trivia contest in full swing, a piano bar that we skipped out of because of the lousy music, and another bar with live music. All in all an interesting look at Silicon Valley and the Stanford University crowd enjoying themselves. The only problem we had was that Tom was not in training and experienced the ill effects of following the Hoffster.