2011-7-29 (Getty Center)

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Gushi

2011-7-19 LA Union station

甜糯米湯圓

材料:
糯米粉600g，熱開水360cc冷水100cc(粉：水→4：3)
*冷水量請保留一些不要一次全部加入，視混合情況再斟酌添加，以免太黏。

步驟:
1.將開水加入到糯米粉中，用工具慢慢拌成顆粒散狀，再加冷水搓揉均勻成不黏手的糯米團 。 (揉合時若覺得黏可以加一些乾糯米粉)
2.搓揉均勻的糯米團搓成長條，再依照自己的喜好大小捏成一小團一小團，小糯米團在雙手間搓圓即可。
3.煮一鍋熱水，將要吃的份量先煮熟撈起。
4.放入備好的黑糖薑汁甜水即可。

PS：以上是偷吃步的作法，但簡易方便易操作，成品Q軟有彈性。

2011-7-8 Palm Springs one day's Trip

Palm Springs

PALM SPRINGS, CA - The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway constructed in rugged Chino Canyon on the north edge of Palm Springs - about two hours by car from Los Angeles and San Diego - did not just happen. It required foresight, planning, financing and, most of all a vision. For years, it was the dream of a young electrical engineer named Francis F. Crocker to "go up there where it's nice and cool". Crocker's dream began in 1935 while he was on a trip to Banning, California, with newspaper publisher Carl Barkow. Mopping his brow in the heat of the day, Crocker gazed on longingly at the still snow-capped peak of Mt. San Jacinto 10,834 feet high. At that moment, "Crocker's Folly,'' as it was soon dubbed by one newspaper woman, was born - a tramway up the sheer cliffs of Chino Canyon.