The trip is going well and approaches the end soon.

As for English skills it turned out to be a great conspiracy. Most people I was interacting with were native Russians. Almost in every restaurant or coffee shop I heard Russian from here or there. Even visiting the DMV web site to get a Californian driver's handbook I was granted the option to download it in Russian. But thanks God there was an exposing to English I could not avoid. I'm talking about the driving rules. Did I said that I got the driver's handbook in Russian? Actually it turned out that there is not much to read in this book because, god only knows why, Americans prefer to write the rules directly on the road signs while other terrestrials, and I bet extraterrestrials too, prefer pictograms. Well, not a big deal, if you can read a poem of "War and Peace" length posted on a tableau driving through a freeway at a rainy night.

Turning to coffee I must confess that I miss the coffee that I used to in Novosibirsk. But to the honour of all the Americans I'm pleased to say that the best coffee in Novosibirsk is produced by an American guy who founded the net of coffee shops "Travelers coffee".

Having a gps navigator in the car along with a couple of navigating apps in the mobile phone it is pretty easy to navigate around here. Sometimes I covered a couple of hundrend miles a day and never had even a glimpse thought that I can be lost somewhere. What was realy hard in my navigation experience is to find a place to park a car in San Francisco. That is really a quest.

Most impressed I was while seeing the ocean's coast line. That is a fantastic view. I really would love to live in such a place.