Wanderlusting.

Memories from the third day…apologies for the length, but it’s hard enough trying to cram all the memories into this small of a space. Waking up to your alarm at 5 AM may be painful, but stepping outside to find the moon has risen over Joshua Tree and you’re alone with the desert makes it…well,…

The second day brought… A night in Lompoc (second “o” is long), right next to Vandenberg Air Force Base…and a trip around the base. It is huge, like half-the-Bay-Area-sized huge, and since Lompoc is a military town, it is very, very different from, you know…Berkeley. Lots of Wal-Marts and chain stores, not so much tie-dye,…

Wait — this time I found it for real… Originally uploaded by gewekean From Quartzsite, AZ:

I remember now why I do this… Originally uploaded by gewekean Where the streets truly have no name… (U2 wrote The Joshua Tree — to this day, one of my favorite albums ever — while staying in Twentynine Palms, which is about twenty miles back now. Staying out here, you can truly understand why it…

What I woke up to this morning… Originally uploaded by gewekean

Southern California definitely does have its charms… (Just to be clear, I mean the beach in general, not specific people — it’s so bright out here I can’t even really see what I took a picture of…) Originally uploaded by gewekeanCarpinteria State Beach.

Guess what it did last night? Originally uploaded by gewekean To my amazement, it *rained*. In Southern California. In August. Incredibly unusual, in my understanding. We’ll see what the beach is like today, or if the top can come down…

Memories of the first day: Being barely awake and needing caffeine badly (5:00 AM on a Saturday, madness!) — but having the wind in my hair and the sun coming up over the East Bay hills as I drove across the Bay Bridge. All was right with the world. Discovering the little doughnut shop in…