I am a tourist.

I drove Joscelyn to the Oakland Airport yesterday.  It was great to have her here, but I am so tired!  Check out everything we did:

1. We went to Alcatraz.  She was amazed to find that I'd never been there.  Really now, though, who has?  I'm pretty sure only tourists go there.  But you'll note from my subject line, I am a tourist.  So, we went.  Honestly, it was very neat.  It was a nice, sunny day (although windy out in the bay, of course) and the audio tour that's included in the price of the tour was surprisingly good.  I like taking the ferry, too.

Then we wandered through Chinatown and North Beach.

2.  We went to the town of Sonoma and a bit into Napa County, to look at the wineries.  It was a bit anticlimactic, honestly, and then it started to rain.  So when lunchtime came 'round, we drove back to my parents' house.

3. We went down to Point Reyes and walked around the Earthquake Trail.  I always thought that Point Reyes was the epicenter of the great 1906 earthquake, but I was wrong (that's down by Daly City).  I do think it had the greatest shaking, however, and you can stand right on the faultline and see where a two halves of a fence are now ten feet apart.

4. We drove up to Armstrong Grove and looked at the redwoods.  I think Joscelyn was suitably impressed.

5. We went back down to the city for a history walk on the earthquake (it's the centennial of the great quake, so there's a lot of commemoration going on).  Afterwards, we met up with my friend Sonya in the Mission, where we had burritos.  Then we met my friend Jeff in the Castro, which was good, as he'd taken a bag of my stuff back to CA when he visited Chicago a few weeks ago.  He also drove us up to Twin Peaks.  It was a beautiful day and we could see everything.  Lovely.

Now Jos is back home, and I am trying to take care of my last minute errands.  I have to run to the post office tomorrow, I just realized I still have my Field Museum badge.  I expect they wouldn't be happy if I took it to Bulgaria with me.