Oakland

NCAA Regionals 2006

I go to Oakland, my birth place, about every year or so. A lot of my relatives live here and it’s a great area. The scenery is often perfect for tourist pictures and the quiet-ness in some parts is calm and serene. Perfect for times when you just need to take a break from the world and you have the time and money to fly.

Kinda fun! Colorful would be the right word to describe it. I wouldn’t go here to explore by myself, though.

went to see beck in 98. he was beautiful. dressed like a horse. yay.

I once got lost here at 3 am when I was driving my (then)girlfriend to a modeling event. The hotels we did manage to find were unbelievably shady but nobody would let us check in because they have an “escort policy” because they think any girl with a man at night could be a prostitute. Great city!
Needless to say we ended up finding a dump and pretended to be married before we finally got a room.

I attended a conference that took place in Oakland on November 2005. It was the first time that I visited California, so I didn’t know what to expect. Granted, I didn’t have the time to explore the area…or my hotel was located remotely from all the attractions. I hope to come back another time and explore at my own leisure.

I love it here because I was born here

If you don’t know where you are you are in Oakland and it is not meant to be taken lightly. If you dont know ppl in the part of town you are trying to go to it is better not to go (East Oakland) Not a fun place less you make it to a side show. That shit is so much fun. But there is also alot of good in the O if you can make it to the jazz club call yoshis i think or if you can get to Berkley so much t do in a 2 mile radius.

Going to college in Oakland has been a huge difference from growing up in predominantly white, coffee bleeding Portland, Oregon. Oakland is a truly diverse and vibrant city, which lacks the glitter of San Francisco across the bay, but makes up for it in grit and countless opportunities for discovery.
Lake Merritt is simply beautiful, as is Chabot regional park, and sunset from the top of the Oakland hills rivals any other west coast sunset there is.

Once I wanted to live in you. But your secret got out. Now you’re the Brooklyn of the West.