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Today is my last day in the Bay Area. Well, I'll shortly return to Menlo Park after a one-week trip to OOPSLA 2004, taking place once again in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. But after that it is goodbye Menlo Park, goodbye Silicon Valley. At least for now...
Yesterday, I brought in my stuff to an export service, where I waited in this desolate waiting room for the main guy to appear. I almost walked out backwards when I saw this room, but the company and the manager turned out to be friendly and professional.
Waiting room of the company I'm using to ship my stuff back to Germany
After moving boxes around for most of the day, I was happy to retire to an early Geek Abend at the Palo Alto Gordon Biersch. As you can gather from the picture, I got a good preparation of what's to come once I get settled in Germany. We had a good chunk of "Festbier".
My last Geek Abend at the Palo Alto Gordon Biersch
Today, I had a final enjoyable day at "the cottage", my beautiful home for the summer of 2004 in Menlo Park. Below, you can get a glimpse of just how beautiful it was. But it really is only a glimpse as you don't really see the garden and its fruit trees, or the hammock under the shade spending trees, or the palm tree, or much of the house itself.
A glimpse of "the cottage" and parts of its garden---I will miss it
After ten years of living abroad, I'm finally returning to Germany. From Hamburg, my home town, I moved to Zurich, lived there for five years, passed through Mannheim for a few months, moved on to Boston, where I lived for 2.5 years, went back to Berlin for a few months, and finally moved to Stanford and the Silicon Valley, where I lived for another total of 2.5 years.
Goodbye, Bay Area!
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