What a full and fun day. I am learning what it is like to be in an immersive language environment, actually, I would say it is semi-immersive. Everyone here speaks English to some extent (and a lot better than I speak French!), so when I am being taught how to do things around the farm…

Today was a very full day! I got up at 2:30am in order to make it to the airport by 3:50. I needn’t have worried about it as check-in was very fast, I was done in five minutes and then had to wait until 4:30 when TSA opened up. That was fine with me as…

I am realizing how much I like to know what is going to happen. I’m excited but feeling a bit stressed about going to Canada since I don’t know what it’s going to be like when I get there. I don’t know any of the people or a lot about what I’m going to do…

I spent the last few days in LA for a JNE meeting. Before I left I got in a long walk and went past a Rite-Aid that was originally a Thrifty drug store and still had a Thrifty ice cream sign out front. That brought back such memories of getting 10c square scooped ice cream.…

On Monday, I spent time with Javi at the beach, the last time I get to hang out with him until I get back in October. We had a blast and I was very grateful for how uncrowded the beach was. It was warmer than I expected, I was fine wearing shorts and being barefoot…

On Sunday I went for a hike with my hiking buddies. We decided not to do a ridge trail hike as we we getting a later start than usual. Instead we hiked the Cataract Falls – Potrero Meadow loop on Mount Tam. It’s a short 6 1/2 mile challenging hike that is beautiful, when on…

I got my haircut on Thursday morning then headed back to San Francisco for my last day of petsitting, on the way back I stopped at Treasure Island, a place I’ve never been to before. There wasn’t much to see on the island except a lot of construction, though the views of the city were…

I got out and enjoyed a couple of different art museums in San Francisco that I hadn’t been to before. I took the bus to the Museum of Craft and Design in Mission Bay where there were two exhibits to explore. One was a series of concrete journals, visual diaries, created by an artist named…

Taking the bus around San Francisco over the last week I have been struck by the diversity of people I’ve seen which is a huge contrast to the homogeneity I encountered during my time in Wyoming. I’ve also seen a huge disparity in wealth while I’ve been moving around the city, something that was not…

Recipe for a fantastic Monday – take a dog for a sunrise walk on the beach, buy coffee from a roaster based in his garage in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood, take a 12 mile walk through Golden Gate Park to Ocean Beach and back with a friend and a happy dog, marvel at the beautiful…