Well we went from Venice, which was bright, sunny, and warm to Palo Alto, which was cool and cloudy. The stay in Palo Alto was not a highlight of the trip, being spent mostly in a very cold auditorium listening to incompletely prepared presentations. Some critical parts had changed the night before and nobody had heard them before the talks. Not exactly the ideal scene for a dryrun.

By far the best part of the trip was dinner with Kevin and Tali.

On the way South, we stopped at a motel along the way, and woke to rain. (Diana expressed some questions about where it was, hence the map). On the way through the grapevine we could hardly see the road for the spray. We stopped and had a lovely brunch with Diana, then came on home, in the rain of course. We did make it, but it was neither easy nor fun.

We picked up the cat at the vet’s, and she spent most of the trip home giving us hell for leaving her. She did settle down by evening, though.

I think we all ended up exhausted.