Why, you might well be asking, especially if you are new around here… or have a bad memory… are we looking at a photograph of the fog-shrouded coastline of California, obviously taken near Big Sur, just as the morning sun begins to tint the sky with magical colors… without so much as an explanation  as to how we got here???

Why don’t we look at some more pictures while I fill you in… or remind you… whichever…

So as you may… or may not… recall… (and if you don’t, you should scroll back)… I went on a little adventure last month, from San Diego, where we live, to the Bay Area… (The only ‘Bay Area’ is the San Francisco Bay Area, just ask anybody who grew up there)…

Our younger daughter, Mollie, who, technically hasn’t even graduated high school yet, was accepted to a pre-med school camp at U C Berkeley… yeah, she is that smart… and I went along to act as a support unit… and I stayed at my mom’s house, because she happens to live just North of Berkeley…

Ooooh… look… the sun is starting to come up… one advantage of driving on the West coast on Highway One is that you get to see the sun come up for a really long time because of the mountain range… if you time it right… and I did… which we will get to…

Anyway, the reason you should go back and look at the earlier pictures of my adventure is because there are dogs, and cute kids, and awesome sunsets, and San Francisco, and flowers and a magical plum tree, and all kinds of things… because I know how to have a freekin’ adventure.

To make a long story short… well… okay, that boat has sailed… but, after a lot of fun in the Bay Area, we stopped by my cousin’s house in Santa Cruz on the way home… and then I stayed to help my cousin with her new baby and active toddler… and did I mention I did lots of pictures of cute kids?

And when I left their house, I got up at three in the morning, just to take more pictures to share with you, and drove on foggy, narrow roads that cling to the edge of cliffs, so we could watch the sun come up together.

But meanwhile, we are getting ready to do some remodeling on our house, and my wife wants to get rid of our old computer and switch to laptops… which I, a computer moron, am now trying to learn, along with newer version of all the software… and because our computer has been backing up its files for like two weeks now, these pictures were lost in limbo…

But now I can finally finish this adventure.

I hope you got all that.

Because for the next few posts, I am not telling the whole story all over again.