One Week Down....One Week To Go

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." Edward Abbey

"Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." John Muir

Dancing at the Trout Lake Country Inn the night before graduation.

"Must We Must Always Teach With Books? Let Them Look At The Mountains And The Stars Above. Let Them Look At The Beauty Of The Waters And The Trees And The Flowers On Earth. They Will Then Begin To Think And To Think Is The Beginning Of A Real Education." Unknown


Well....
my one long summer of vacation came to an end Thursday, October 25 after three days of cleaning up around the center, evaluations, exit paperwork, a night filled with dinner/slide show/skits/dancing for hours, and then finally a graduation/luncheon on Thursday.

Saturday morning I picked up my sister from the airport and headed southwest to start our trip down the coast. The first night we stayed in Bandon, Oregon. The second night we stayed somewhere in northern California. Monday night we stayed with a friend of my sister's in Tiburon which is located in Marin county about 20 minutes from San Francisco. Tuesday early afternoon we headed into the city. That night we were visiting one of my sister's friend's when all the sudden the walls started to shake. At first it kind of seemed like the upstairs neighbors were being really loud. However, it was no loud neighbor's. It was an earthquake. Not a major one (5.6) and lasted at the most a minute. I have only been in one other earthquake and that was when I was younger at the beach on Balboa Island in Southern California.
Thursday we continued south down highway 1 to Capitola (south of Santa Cruz where my older brother lives) where we it would have been a beautiful drive if the visibility wasn't so very low :) This area is really nice. Lots of hanging out with my brother, his dog Max, a little shopping, exercising along the coast where there are multiple amounts of surfers, bonding at my brother's place by watching "Seinfeld" and logging onto our computers because no better way to bond then to not communicate at all :)
Tomorrow it will be time to continue south to Bakersfield to visit old stomping grounds from younger days. Bakersfield is where my mom grew up and where her family/friends still live.