Day 1 -- Drive down to Bay Area

What a great sense of freedom to take off on this trip! Left the driveway with Beach Boys music blaring, and all the checklist items checked off.


First stop was the Chalet House of Omelettes for a fuel up


I realized that the trip is the kind of thing one would like to do as a teenager, but without the main objective being finding girls. I thought of this when I saw this T-shirt on one of the other breakfasters:


A quick stop at one of Duane Flatmo's famous Eureka murals, and I hit the highway.


It took about 6 hours to get down the Bay Area, including a stop for lunch. I had to stop by the my old windsurfing haunt, the Berkeley Marina (click on any picture to enlarge).

Then it was on to visit our great friends, Berit, Tom, and Sam. Please ignore my expression in this picture.

After a great dinner, beer, wine and talking into the night, I dropped into bed and slept until 5 AM the next morning.