Wanderlusting.

Oh, yum. Just….yum. Originally uploaded by gewekean Mile: 168.2. More later.

Why unexpected detours are great… Originally uploaded by gewekean Less than 10 miles from the heart of Silicon Valley, you get this… Mile: 143.9

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.…

Well, this isn’t exactly where I expected to be. I’m at the Apple Store in Palo Alto, rather than much farther down the coast. As I was driving along this morning, my iPhone completely died. Yesterday I’d noticed it doing this a couple of times — it would suddenly “fuzz out” with green video artifacts…

I’m excited. And nervous, and happy, and hopeful, and content. These trips I’ve taken over the past few years are part of me like almost nothing else is. They are one of the few things I’ve done completely and solely for myself, ever, and they make me happy. The desert has this ability to reach…

First: I think “blog” may be one of the dumbest words ever to have entered the English language. I can’t help it — it’s what everybody calls them and, this being my first one, I might as well join the crowd. (Yes, me, the technology geek, getting a blog for the first time in 2007.…