We have been talking about this trip for at least a semester, if not longer. Something to get away after school gets out, and our first extended trip together. Laura arrived at my house at 8:15 AM as I hurried to finish the packing that I hadn’t done for this trip. In fact, my preparations had really only begun about thirty minutes before her arrival. We loaded my two bags into the back seat and took off for San Francisco on I-80, a clear drive on a nearly cloudless day.
When we arrived in the city we decided to visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, also known as the SFMOMA. I particularly enjoyed the installations displayed outdoors on the roof, built to withstand the weather and to be changed by the elements. The pieces that evolved unabashedly with time, and no one would ever “touch them up” to avoid the natural effects that fell upon them. I like that.
We went to the grocery store to get a picnic dinner for the beach, and hit the sand just as the sun set. We enjoyed a simple sandwich-and-soup dinner, watching the waves break and talking until the sky was completely dark. It wasn't until midway through dinner that we realized that less than a quarter mile away was where we had finished the Bay to Breakers race in May, our first time spent together after I got back from my bicycle trip.
After dinner we continued down the coast for about twenty minutes before pulling off at an overlook where we set up our "fort" in the back of the Jeep. On top of a climbing pad and goose-down cover, warmly surrounded by sleeping bags, we slept.
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