Next it was time to head north, so I made my way through airport security taking this risky picture before renting this car in San Jose and heading to the Hotel Avante in Mountain View to settle into my room with a sloping bed, a limited closet door, the best supplied desk I've ever and an avant garde sink mounted on, not in, the counter. Next, I walked down the street to the Indian restaurant where they served all of this food and the bread for about #5 which I why I'm happy in the self portrait or maybe I knew I'd soon see the laser cut materials in the back of Jacobo's car and be able to hold one of the new gaskets as we headed off to the Laser Shop where Jacobo marked the occasion but the proprietors were not home so we went to see OtherChefRob but I am not yet able to divulge the details of the secret project I observed there but I was allowed to observe OtherChefRon's car and hear the details of its various demises

and then drive to Half Moon Bay to take our standard walk and admire the cost of real estate before stopping to see the dinosaurs on the way back and then having bread with pictures of Jacobo and this self portrait before his calzone and my pizza arrived and I began the challenge of taking a self portrait of myself with my food