I only brought a small carry-on with me, thinking if I bought anything I could mail it. That was foolishly optimistic since I ended up buying everything (yes, including all those books) and B & L have graciously bequeathed me an old suitcase to get it all home.
These last few days have been a relaxing mix of the usual activities, including a trip to the San Jose flea market! This is a big market full of stalls selling clothes, household goods, food and other essentials:
Amazingly they have a great arcade with many original retro cabs. I parked myself at Raiden Fighters for a while…
The food options were mostly Mexican, although there were some novel ones like pop-rocks encrusted corn-on-the-cob!
We found a strength tester and foolishly attempted it. You had to squeeze two bull horns to measure manliness and it was incredibly difficult and quite agonizing. As you can see Bernard defeated me, although my excuse was I stopped early since I was worried about my usual chest pain!
Today I went for a 3 hour walk in the hot, breezeless streets of Sunnyvale. Once I got back to the apartment I collapsed and have been loafing on this couch watching YouTube ever since. A fittingly comfortable way to end this vacation 🙂