Having the freedom of a rental car means you can go where you want, when you want. As an added bonus driving by yourself also allows you to acquire a vast amount of driving experience (read: getting lost and driving around for hours on end).
Freeways are not very pull over to the side of the road and check the map friendly. Fortunately I discovered that navigation problems can be solved with pre-planning, post-it notes, and Google Maps.

So after making a list of places to see and grouping them into days; I ended up at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. In my defense I wasn’t the only person looking around, there was another guy.

The Computer History Museum ended up being really interesting and I would recommend it to non-techies. They have an impressive collection ranging from old Cray super computers to an Enigma machine. Even an Altair 8800 is sitting on a shelf amongst its future children.

Not a fridge but an Interface Message Processor – the first packet router for the Arpanet.