On Saturday, J and I went to see our obligatory annual football game – the Causeway Classic. It’s the annual Football Game between UC Davis (Aggies) and Sacramento State University (Hornets) and it’s named after the Yolo Causeway, which is a 3.2-mile long elevated highway viaduct on Interstate 80 over the Yolo...
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I had the most relaxing, lovely 4-day weekend ever. On Friday, I visited my friend Susi in the Bay area. We spent the day chatting and took a walk through the neighborhood on this beautiful fall day. The view of the bay was gorgeous and it was sunny and quite...
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How was your weekend, friends? I got a lot of errands and cleaning done this weekend, I baked, I did laundry, we completely cleaned the apartment from floor to ceiling. It’s a nice feeling of accomplishment. And of course, we watched the World Series over the last few days. I...
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For J’s 30th birthday – which was last Thursday – I had planned a fun weekend away. J had no idea where we were going – I just put him in the car on Saturday morning and off we went. First, we headed to the coast where I had planned...
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After a somewhat cool and overcast Thursday, I was hoping for fall to be here, but then the temperatures crept up to the mid 80’s again over the weekend and the feeling of fall arriving disappeared as quickly as it had come. Oh well. There are only 10 weeks left...
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As previously mentioned, we took a trip to Lake Tahoe over the weekend. When we reached Echo Summit, the mountain pass at 7,382 ft (2,250 m), we stopped to take in the beautiful view of the Tahoe Basin. The “Sierra Nevada Southern Route” (aka the “Pioneer Route”) of the Lincoln Highway,...
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To be honest, 98°F and sunshine is not really the weather that you want to have when you go to Apple Hill. It’s October, 1 after all and it’s really time for some fall weather, but it looks like we have to wait for that for a little while longer. The...
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J and I spent the last weekend in San Francisco. We had a couple of things to celebrate (things that are between me and him and that I don’t need to mention for the sake of this blog post, but I want you to know that they were things that...
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