The good part, though…

The drive from the coast back through the hills and redwoods to Palo Alto was beautiful. This is exactly why I love going on trips like this — it’s always the little, unexpected, unplanned things that astonish and amaze you. Going to see, say, Big Sur is one thing, and Big Sur truly is incredible. But, for me, it’s never the thing you thought you’d see that’s what you remember — it’s the thing that happened that you never expected.