The following two nights were spent with Kristen's cousin Annie and her husband Russ, and then our friends John and Chris, who recently returned from their honeymoon to Argentina and Chile. It was great to see everyone, and also to see photos that reminded us of our own honeymoon to some of the same places last year. The strong urge to head southbound kept us from lingering in the North Bay, although on our way to San Francisco we swung by the Wildflower Bakery and Point Reyes National Seashore, where we enjoyed beautiful Kelham Beach all by ourselves on a sunny 76 degree day on Super Bowl Sunday!
We looked forward to visiting with my brother Jeff and sister-in-law Pilar in San Francisco. We were, however, decidedly not happy about parking our Goldi on the street in the city, but we had to. We stripped off everything of value (bikes, skis, laptops, etc.) and parked her, closing all of the curtains and hoping for the best. Everything worked out fine, and in addition to eating some great food in the city and seeing some great landmarks (De Young Museum, Twin Peaks, etc.), we rode across the city and Golden Gate Bridge on bikes on a picture perfect day before departing for Santa Cruz.
The drive down Highway 1 to Santa Cruz was even more breath-taking than usual, thanks to the enduring spell of warm, dry weather. We stayed several nights in Santa Cruz, visiting our friends Mike, Leilani, their two-year-old son Noah. Despite the dry weather, we were able to find some great Chantrelle mushrooms to top a delicious pizza! We also visited with the Cranston family (thanks for the hospitality Jim, Candace, Freya and Fletcher), and Anthony and Anna in the hills above Aptos, who generously gave us some homemade health products from their Aptos Apriaries beekeeping venture. The bees had obviously been enjoying the warm weather too! Our southbound journey was to continue- it was unclear if the spell of nice weather would too.
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