Tourist TIme!

[hrj]

shalmestere and hudebnik are out visiting for a couple of weeks and using my place as a home base, so today I implemented the first step of the Bay Area Essential Tourist Plan and took them up to Muir Woods, preceded by a drive over the Golden Gate Bridge and followed by a driving tour of the Tiburon area (i.e., the long way around to the Richmond Bridge). We did a fair bit of hiking among the redwoods and had a nice little picnic up on the top of a ridge. (I highly recommend the Muir Woods shuttle bus unless you're one of those people who gets up early enough in the morning to park within a one mile radius of the park entrance.)

Tomorrow it's over to Menlo Park to so that some musical instruments can meet their maker (in the literal sense) for some adjustment, then continuing the tourist program we'll pop over to the coast and slowly make our way down Hwy 1 to Santa Cruz, with stops for ocean interaction. With luck, we may be able to add to our party for dinner in Santa Cruz before heading home.

After that they're on their own for the week, but next Saturday the plan is to take the Oakland-SF ferry (one should, after all, take advantage of having guests to do all the touristy things one never gets to on one's own) to take in the Ferry Building farmer's market. Meet-ups are encouraged. I'm starting to put together plans for a dinner party that Sunday. And then it's a week of Berkeley Early Music Festival for them until it's time to go.

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