John was teaching a class in San Francisco over the weekend so we went a few days early to visit the city. We walked around and did the tourist things and enjoyed the aesthetics of the city. While the city is beautiful, the homeless are everywhere And there is lots of political expression and some very good graffiti. I had read about a wave organ, which sounded very interesting but was really nothing. The good news was that it got us sections of the city we would not have gon

Summer was evaporating and we had not yet communed with nature so we went camping in the Eastern Sierra Mountains for a few days. There is no internet or phone service once you climb the mountains, so the relaxation is complete. We usually camp on the western slope, liking to sleep under the Sequoia trees, but our favorite location was closed due to forest fire risk so we went up the eastern slopes. The first night headed into the mountains at Lone Pine and camped at 10,000 f