You remember how we said that we were up much earlier than usual, which was how I got the pictures of the sunrise? Well, after a while, our steam ran out and we pulled into a “vista point” we’d seen on the map. This was it. A concrete turnout off the freeway, not even offset. [...]

We stayed the night at a rest area, and were thus up earlier than we ever usually are. The early morning sun was pale and pretty in the sky, and we discovered that we’d stopped at a very beautiful place. The road started to curve upwards and mountains peeked above the rises.

I have this friend who lives in Stockton, and she’s been keeping me moderately sane as we go through the growing pains of emptying two huge storage sheds into one that’s even huger. The project’s taken much longer than expected, with a few bumps along the way. From time to time, therefore, she drags me [...]