{"id":998,"date":"2008-08-09T21:04:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T02:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2008-08-09T21:04:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T02:04:42","slug":"sheryll-is-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"Sheryll is in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"noadbriteinline\"><img align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6lnzjr\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found out last week (after a surprise call from Pia) that Sheryll is in the US.  Pia when to visit her in Santa Rosa, CA and they called me.  I really wanted to go visit her.  It has been 10 years since we&#8217;ve seen each other so you can imagine.  I would have had to go over the weekend (they leave on the 24th and I have three days of training next week) because all of my vacation time is tied up for the rest of year.  I really thought about it and tried to figure it out.  I couldn&#8217;t figure out a way, though, because I&#8217;m super busy the next couple of weeks and plane fare is through the rough and I would need a rental car (Santa Rosa is about 2 hours away from San Francisco) and accommodations, adding even more expense.  It&#8217;s hard to plan a low-cost trip on such short notice.  I want to see her and all, but not to the tune of $1200. Ugh.  I wish I would have known sooner so that we could plan ahead.<\/p>\n<p>In talking to Sheryll, however, it sounds like they are already planning a follow up visit.  She&#8217;s thinking of returning in December (around her birthday) or maybe next summer.  I&#8217;m thinking that we will just catch them on their next trip.  It would be a great excuse to visit San Francisco.  It has been a decade since my last visit and Brian has never been there.  I actually found this web site called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustedtours.com\" >Trusted Tours &#038; Attractions<\/a>, which has information about various tours, attractions, and activities.  I was looking at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustedtours.com\/store\/San-Francisco-C90.aspx\" >things to do in San Francisco<\/a> in particular so that Brian and I could turn the visit into a full-fledged vacation.  Actually, while we are at it, we might as well visit Jane and Joy in Los Angeles.  Trusted Tours has a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustedtours.com\/store\/Los-Angeles-C428.aspx\" >things to do in Los Angeles<\/a> resource also.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the web site offers tours and information about many other cities not just San Francisco so be sure to sign up for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustedtours.com\/newsletter.aspx\" >Trusted Travels eNewsletter<\/a>.  You can get tickets for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustedtours.com\/store\/Metropolitan-Museum-of-Art-C162.aspx\" >Metropolitan museum of art<\/a> in New York for example.  That&#8217;s another place that I&#8217;ve been dying to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Trusted Tours has the best <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/guide.trustedtours.com\/\"  >online travel guides<\/a><\/strong> so I&#8217;m bookmarking it for future reference.  It will help me out a lot for future vacation ideas.  I&#8217;m really looking forward to Sheryll&#8217;s follow up visit after Christmas.  As soon as she books her flight, I&#8217;m going to start putting together a trip itinerary for Brian and I.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/66n3bl\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out last week (after a surprise call from Pia) that Sheryll is in the US. Pia when to visit her in Santa Rosa, CA and they called me. I really wanted to go visit her. It has been 10 years since we&#8217;ve seen each other so you can imagine. I would have had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}