Anya and I both get MLK Day off from work, and this year we spent the long weekend in California with my two closest friends, Matt and Jason. As I've written before, Matt lives in Palo Alto on campus at Stanford. We all stayed at his place, but having been there before, drove to more interesting locales each day. I don't get to see those guys nearly as often as I'd like, so it was great to have a long weekend together.
We spent two days in San Francisco, mostly just wandering around different parts of the city. The weather wasn't perfect - it was rather Seattle-like, in fact - but that didn't slow us down. There are many interesting neighborhoods in San Francisco; you could spend a lot more than two days exploring.
One day we drove about an hour to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. We took a rainy but magnificent hike amongst massive, old (1,500 - 2,000 years) redwood trees. It was California's first state park, and it's known for having the largest collection of tall redwoods south of San Francisco. Like similar big-tree locales near Seattle, Big Basin is at it's best when it's raining: it was serene, fragrant, and virtually deserted.
The weekend's pictures are here.
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