Silicon Valley

You won't find Silicon Valley on a map, and I have often wondered where it was. It is basically the area not very far south of San Francisco incorporating Palo Alto, Santa Clara and San Jose and is the birthplace of the silicon chip. Last night we stayed in San Jose, the third largest city in California (after L.A. and San Diego). We stayed a little bit away from the city center and there wasn't too much going on, so we got an early night ready for the Tech Museum.

The Tech Museum is showing an AMAZING exhibition called Body Worlds 2. We missed the controversial Body Worlds in both London and Yokohama, so were very excited to be able to see it here and it was the reason we were in San Jose. The exhibition basically displays plastinated human bodies and was pretty shocking. Unlike the first exhibition which used the bodies of executed Chinese prisoners, these exhibits bequeathed their bodies willingly to the project before their deaths. It is probably the best exhibition I have ever visited. Read more here.

After the exhibition and a quick lunch, we motored on up the 101 through San Francisco, over the Golden Gate Bridge and into Marin county. We stopped for coffee in a very European-looking town called Sausalito, explored the quaint hamlet of Mill Valley and found a motel nearby to stay for the night. I wonder what tomorrow will bring.

Some photos here.