We woke up early and headed to Rafe and Laurence’s… parked the car and headed up tofast hike ‘the dish.. Its a 3ish mile walk up soem beutiful rolling hills surrounding the stanford radio telescope.. Ive run and walked this so many times over the years.. so nice to be able to hike it with diane.
On the way down we ran into two aggessinve male turkeys.., they wee gaurding their flock that were just off the road.. every time we tried to pass they spread their tails and staryed gogblling.. it was so freaky.. we had to climb up the hill a bit to get aroudn them
We heade back to the airbnb ro clean aup a bit. then headed out to meet our friend shannon and her kid zoe. Shannon and her husband aaron live here in palo alto. Shannon’s parents are our good freinds Kate and steve we’ve known since grad school. Aaron had to work.. but we agreed to meet shannon and zoe at the zoe near our house. One the way there we stopped at the smal;l but great palo alto tech art museum.. Great stuff !
we finished the museum just in time to cross the street to the zoo.. shannon and zoe showed up a couple of minutes later. . It was a perfect place to meet ! Zoe is gettign so biog.. she just turned 2 !
from there we headed back over to rafes and Laurances.. and spent the rest of the day hangong out , talkign, eating.. and laughing.. so great to have this time together.
Diane and I woke up early and went for a short run to explore our neighborhood.. Such a cute place.. we’re a short walk between two two parks.. There’s a very cool little zoo and science museum.
we found a red bull bottle .. which always is like a wink from Sam
Around 10 we drove out to sunnyvale to pick up Laurance (aka Lolo) at the honda dealership where her car was getting some work. The three of us headed up to black mountain just outside of sunnyvale. We ended up taking a beautiful 13 mile hike up and back to the top of black moutnain where you could see the pacific ocean !
It was great getting the time with Laurence.. ! We’re very compatible hikers.. same speed.. !
!3 miles felt soooo good . Wew went back to Rafes and Laurnces and had a great dinner\. We spent hours hanging out and talking..
we had so much fun talkign about old times and old friends. We talked lots abotu his parents.. they were such great peope.. I miss them
so glad to see him doign so well. More hanging out tomorrow !
This morning diane and I said goodbye to the snow before Jen came by and took usto the airport. We’re heading out to the west coast for a week and a half of seeign freinds, teachning classes and seeing family.
Our flight out to SFO went through dulles. We had enough time to go to one of our favorite airport lounges.. the Turkish Air Lounge in the D concourse . (one of the cool thing about the travel status we have is we can use many other airlines lounges). We had a middle eastern feast before geting on the long flight to California
THe flight out was long ~ 6 hours) and productive.. I worked the entire way.. mostly programming. Didnt look outside until we were about to land
got to SFO and headed out to the car rental building. Caught site of a place i’d once filmed a movie for an IBM project I was doing
That also reminded me that I’d once taken off from here in a Lufthansa 777 for a conference that took place on a plane. !.. We took over the top section of the giant plane and helpd a conference complete with presentations, question from the audience and special snacks. THe folks on the rest of the plane were invited to join in .. I found a few write-ups about it online here
We got our car.. and headed down to palo alto and got settled in to the airbnb.. As soon as we were settled we went over to see rafe and laurence .. It was so good seeing them. Rafe is recovering from some intense surgery ..
He’s looking so good !
We hung out for a couple of hours.. then headed back to the airbnb .. Super glad to be here .
Hey.. it’s March fourth ! – one the only .. maybe the only date in the year thats an english sentence.!
One of the things that happened when we paid off our house yesterday ius that now we become responsible for buying our own flood insurance. Bacxk when the bank decided we needed it, they baught it for us (using our moeny of course).. now its up to us.
I remember that when we baught the place we were not considered in the flood hazard zone..
now 43 years later we are.. It
our flood insurance bill is proof that climate change is real…
now if we could get our government to remember that ! nite all. nite sam -me
