This is the blog of Mark Wordsworm, the travelling worm. I’m a 25-year-old bookmark and can proudly boast my own Hallmark serial number, 95 HBM 80-1. You’ll probably want to read all about me and my Travelling Companion (the TC).
Today’s travel notes
Me and the TC are in Mountain View, visiting the main Google campus (often called the Googleplex) and Silicon Valley.
My impressions? Shiny happy people having fun, and working hard.
The book I’m in
Outer Bounds: Fortune’s Rising, by Sara King. This is an excellent book, with varied characters and an intriguing fantasy world. Take it with you on your travels and read it when you want a comfort zone to snuggle into. It’s full of action, goodies, and baddies.
(To be precise, I’m not exactly in this book, because the TC has decided to read it on her Kindle. I’m a real-life, three-dimensional creature, so I don’t fit into an ebook. Nevertheless, occupying a unique place in the TC’s consciousness as I do, I can inform you reliably that this is a book not to be missed.)
Recommended food store
Ava’s Downtown Market & Deli, 340 Castro Street, Mountain View, California.
Recommended chocolate tasting
The Chocolate Garage, 654 Gilman St. Suite G(arage), Palo Alto, California.
Travel tip
It’s useful to have a car when visiting Silicon Valley. The towns are wide spread, and there’s plenty to see.
The photos
Me on a Google bike, on site at Google, Mountain View:
The bikes are dotted around the Google campus. You can tell them by their colours. Googlers pick them up and drop them off on their way from office to office. It takes half an hour to walk from one end of the campus to the other, so the bikes offer an efficient and healthy alternative.
The Google Android building:
You’ll find an appetising array of cupcakes and cookies next to the Android statues:
The TC spends much of her time in the training building, which lies behind this restful pond. Note the blue hammocks under the white umbrella, awaiting weary Nooglers as they emerge from the orientation classes:
Stan the dinosaur, a T-rex that inhabits the Google grounds:
Downtown Mountain View is pretty, well kept, and well supplied with restaurants:
Another shot of Castro Street, Mountain View:
The Mountain View City Hall is rather magnificent:
If you’d like the TC’s perspective on the life and chocolate at Google, try her post: Report from a new Google technical writer.
That’s all for today, dudes.
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