We awoke in San Simeon to a stormy oceanfront scene. All the rain that I had thought would be with us all through the rest of the trip was had today, nearly every minute of our 7 hour drive. San Simeon shouldn’t be that long a drive, but the rain was very steady and dense, […]

The bed we slept on was one of those inflatable matress thingees that you take on camping trips. Kelli had never used it before, so I guess it was too late to pump it so it was nice and firm. So all night long, I was tossing and swaying, and nearly rolling off the thing […]

This morning was the best morning. It was cold and gray, drizzly and murky. Shambala’s lodge overlooks a valley from partway up a hill, and it was just beautiful. I mean, sort of like I suppose it would be in the Appalachians. The hilltops were lost in the clouds, everything was green, gold, and red, […]

This morning we were still in Ferndale, and for the few hours we were here, we just milled around the town and looked at shops and generally made Kelli lust for the chance to live here. We went to the town museum where there were some interesting artifacts from their history–everything from farm implements to […]

This morning I awoke to Kelli exclaiming, “hey, you got your SKY!!!” She was referring to the cold damp sky I had been anticipating all along. It wasn’t meant to last however; it was like this in Ferndale, but much of the rest of the day it was clear. It was actually very Sandy Eggo […]

This morning we had breakfast in our little cottage by the sea. After a diet of beef jerky, Balance bars, and cookies, it was nice to get in on some real food– Chex cereal! The cottage was nice and cute, and we were joking about moving in there on account of it really being a […]

We left Livermore and headed for the Bay area. Kelli wanted to take me to her alma mater at Mills College, so we went to Oakland first. The campus was empty mainly because it was a Sunday, but also because all the students had the holiday week off. So we had it to ourselves. We […]