July 16- I am sitting on a beach in Trinidad, California, sipping a tasty beverage and waiting on the sunset, while the children defy all known laws of thermodynamics to frolic in the water and sand (I am wearing long pants and a fleece hoodie, btw). Despite the chill in the air, I gotta say, this is the life. We've spent the past couple days working our way up the California Coast. After we left San Fran, we explored the Golden Gate National Recreation area a...

July 14- We are camped just outside of Point Reyes National Seashore, poised to get back on the nature trail after two-day break for some urban debauchery in San Francisco. OK, well, mainly it was a lot of walking and eating. Unbelievably, I have lived 39 years on this planet and had never been to San Francisco apart from the airport. So I had some catching up to do. We treated ourselves to a couple nights in a hotel using some of Rob's work travel points, and se...

July 14- We are camped just outside of Point Reyes National Seashore, poised to get back on the nature trail after two-day break for some urban debauchery in San Francisco. OK, well, mainly it was a lot of walking and eating. Unbelievably, I have lived 39 years on this planet and had never been to San Francisco apart from the airport. So I had some catching up to do. We treated ourselves to a couple nights in a hotel using some of Rob's work travel points, and se...

July 14- We are camped just outside of Point Reyes National Seashore, poised to get back on the nature trail after two-day break for some urban debauchery in San Francisco. OK, well, mainly it was a lot of walking and eating. Unbelievably, I have lived 39 years on this planet and had never been to San Francisco apart from the airport. So I had some catching up to do. We treated ourselves to a couple nights in a hotel using some of Rob's work travel points, and se...

July 14- We are camped just outside of Point Reyes National Seashore, poised to get back on the nature trail after two-day break for some urban debauchery in San Francisco. OK, well, mainly it was a lot of walking and eating. Unbelievably, I have lived 39 years on this planet and had never been to San Francisco apart from the airport. So I had some catching up to do. We treated ourselves to a couple nights in a hotel using some of Rob's work travel points, and se...