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Travel-velocity slow to stop

Travel is tough when the view looks like this. For me actually it isn't the rain that keeps me home but the city view. I love my San Francisco view plain and simple. It makes it difficult for me to leave. Crazy? Maybe. I certainly have friends who can't wait to get away to somewhere warm and dry by the time February and March arrive. They either live in the snow and are tired of shoveling the white stuff and driving through it, or they live in the northern wet and muddy regions. However for me, I can't complain because for the most part our weather in San Francisco is mild compared to places like Seattle or Boston. So, I think I will sit here and enjoy this passing storm, not complain when I have to put on a rain slicker to take the dog out for a walk, and contemplate my return to Japan. I am due for an Asia adventure and it has been quite a few years since a flight took me in that direction. So far three good reasons: Japanese friends are having babies, I'm intere...

Yosemite in January is as slow as molasses

Winter in Yosemite is just as beautiful as it is in the summer, only without the crowds. The pace is slow. You can go for a walk and its nature that is making the noise rather than people talking. The waters gurgle as a raucous group of crows play in the snow alongside an empty parking lot.

It was during this visit that we came also across of this little fella or lady?




This is one of my favorite photos from the January morning when we left, and the day I got a speeding ticket shortly after leaving the park.

Who speeds out of Yosemite? My intention wasn't to leave this gorgeous national park so quickly, only that once we were completely out of the park the landscape between it and San Francisco isn't as mesmerizing and my lead foot got the best of me.

There you have it, my first new year resolution completed. #1 be more forthcoming within my writing even if it is unflattering. Check.

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