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Traveling around in #SanJose and #NearbyToSanJose at 825 mph on our spinning planet.
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Touring the Fallon House, the biggest house in San Jose when built in 1855. It was the home of Thomas Fallon, prominent resident and a mayor of San Jose. You can learn more about it and sign up for tours at HistorySanJose.org.
Vietnam memorial on West San Carlos to the 142 Sons of San Jose who gave their lives in the Vietnam War.
Looking over San Jose, a little ways up the side of Mt. Hamilton, is a wonderful restaurant with a mighty Grand View of our city and valley. The food, the experience, the view, the smells of nature, and the smells of everyone’s food as it goes by, the time to contemplate the world before us, the room and the beauty for ones mind to expand within… wow; presence on that patio is an amazing opportunity. And after a wonderful experience, you may even take the chance to practice night photography after an evening dinner on that patio. While this photo is more narrowly cropped, from the Grand View restaurant you will see the entire Silicon Valley.
Now part of the Santa Clara County Parks, this 20 acre San Jose, California ranch was once part of the nearly 10,000 acre Rancho Santa Teresa. It was run by Bernal and his descendants continuously from 1834, when this was still Mexico, until 1980.
It was purchased by IBM and then traded as part of a deal so that IBM could build a research lab up in the Santa Teresa hills of San Jose that had belonged to the Santa Clara County Parks.