[California]
Some would say having the side airbag deploy before you leave your driveway is a bad omen. Jess called it a "free pillow".

Our good friend TiVo decided to tag along on our journey across the country. Just don't call him TiVa. It's a birthmark ok.

Jess standing next to the prettiest building in Hayward. By which I mean it didn't have any graffiti on it.

Jess knew that Oakland was a rough town, but she didn't expect the birds to flash gang signs.

Kayaker on right: Shit. I knew we should have turned left at Albuquerque.

We stood around for half an hour, hoping some fornicators would stop by to show us exactly what "unlawful sex" was.

Surprisingly, they still require customers to wear pants. Just an FYI.

Sean: Wait, I'm pretty sure Clint Eastwood didn't have to run thru hurdles in that movie. I'm gonna go ask that guy, just to make sure.

Sean and Jess enjoy the beach as another couple (left) discusses the "mystery hamsterotica.com bookmark" discovered on their shared computer earlier in the day.

It wasn't until Naomi discovered Farah's membership card to "Cheese Fetishists Worldwide" that anyone understand her huge grin when getting her picture taken.

San Francisco Beach (with Golden Gate Bridge) Panorama. (click for much larger version) *

This surfer got all the female monarch butterfly action that he could handle.

The Golden Gate...um....hmm, it's not a tunnel. Or a thoroughfare, I give up.

A bathroom with a window above the toilet. Now god can see when you don't replace the roll.

Forbidden love.

Chad and Jess debate what the best way is to descend into the giant gorge inhabited by cannibalistic subhumans.

"The cannibalistic subhumans left a rope! How fortuitous!"

The tunnel of despair. Or ecstasy. I tried not to go too far in, just in case.

Sean, having traded his left ear for his freedom, climbs to safety out of the gorge.

Mendocino panorama. Click for larger version.