Morning rendezvous with Chris, initially at the doctor's office (last check-up before a personal insurance policy),
after
the
energetic
commute
down 80,
across
37
and
again
southward on 101.
First stop,
hot chocolate,
etc. at the Pancake House,
then
onwards
toward
Mt.
Tamalpais
to
revisit the
Verna Dunshee
Loop,
with views south,
east,
north,
and
west
A
blast
back
Pantoll
to
San Rafael
proves premature, as the next scheduled appointment has been postponed, so, with a sudden gift of more time,
head over to
China Camp,
now for another loop: this being Turtle Back, again with fair prospects, including Bullet Hill, Jake's Island,
Mt. Burdell, and
Big Rock Ridge.
Lots of talk --
particularly this past successful first year at Harvard Divinity School and
relationships past, present, and future.
Back to back to the High School,
a cheery farewell,
off to the post office,
where astoundingly, there continue to be financial greetings --
head
up
(after
detours)
the
freeway
to
Novato to schedule
vehicular maintenance,
then reverse course to the
Richmond - San Rafael,
hopping over to the East Bay and thence
north through Contra Costa and
Solano
(interrupted by a piece of Napa),
for an interval
diverting
along
scenic
Abernathy,
strictly-speaking Mankas Corner, and
arguably
typographical roads and suspect sights & sites --
before beelining past the Pyramids,
Poverties, and
North Lagoons to compose more Hamlet (page 10), by now the 70th day of summer locally, high 84.
