Flew into San Diego where I met my Aunt & Uncle, whom I hadn't seen in about 11 years!! I stayed with them in their temecula home- which is apparently (and appropriately) considered "wine & horse country". We spent a few days touring wineries & vinyards and riding at the ranch. They have wonderful property with lots of fruit trees. It was so great to pick breakfast each morning. I also learned how to play cribbage and, I must say, gave Uncle Tom a run for his money (ok, with lots of help from Aunt Jeep!)
I rented a car and spent the next couple of days driving up Highway 1 through Cambria, Big Sur & Monteray. Talk about a beautiful, breath-taking drive!! I'll be honest though, I didn't get pictures from the highest point on the cliffs though because I couldn't stop or even look over. In fact, I could do nothing but white-knuckle it through. The yellow signs with little stick people under falling rocks along the way were NOT helpful. I spent the night in a great little town of Cambria on Moonstone Beach.
I finally ended up in San Francisco where my cousins live across the Bay in Sausalito. I absolutely fell in love with the city. It's a big city feel on a really small scale. It's beautiful, and colorful and full of character. It's an outdoor city and, let's face it, the weather is awesome. It totally rocked my socks off. Since my cousins had to work, they shipped me off on the ferry each morning with directions to different neighborhoods and districts. Then I walked and explored and took pictures. Great place for people-watching. Marcus & Susan usually met me in the evenings for dinner or a play or something. In fact, they thought it was great fun and suggested I "stay and play longer". They would just continue to deposit me in different sections of the city and come and find me later. Their own interactive version of "Where's Waldo". Any excuse to escape to the city for another evening. Since they both work from home now, they don't make it over there nearly as often.
The week was great and I love California. But the best part was reconnecting with my awesome family. Marcus & I hadn't seen eachother since we were little, little kids and I think was about 12 the last time I saw Scott. I can remember, at one time, feeling especially close to my Uncle Tom. That was lost somewhere along the way- and it was so great to get reconnected. I've missed them and am, again, reminded of the importance of making family priority.
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