A quick trip,
but an excellent one.
Glad to have spent such a nice time with Bette and George, participate in the concert,
and be heading home.
Rental car well-petrolled
(eventually)
and
methodically
returned,
off
into
the
gray
and
eventual blue,
transfer in surprisingly colorful Detroit
while a
tense riot of color tragically transpires televisionly in Baltimore,
previously more known more Southeastern Pennsylvanianly for its "Pike" than precarious police posturing...
Off we go again -- full on with an amusing safety message and
in-flight positioning --
over
Michigan,
Illinois,
Iowa,
Nebraska,
Wyoming,
Colorado,
Utah (Green River,
Wasatch Front and
Valley,
Sevier
Lake),
Nevada,
to
California
(Sierra Nevada,
Clouds Rest,
Half Dome,
Yosemite Valley,
Bridalveil Fall,
Merced River Canyon,
San Joaquin Valley,
Coast Ranges,
Calaveras Reservoir,
Mission Peak,
San Francisco Bay,
Dumbarton Bridge,
Foster City,
Skyline Gap,
San Mateo).
Hallelujah!
The
fog
rolling over the Santa Cruz Mountains,
back to
Long-
Term
Parking,
north
on
101,
northeast
80, to future delights, in a local area that just experienced its 56th day of summer, high zooming up 9 more degrees to 91 -- the highest of the year thus far, and first at 90+ (80 at SFO, a poor 60 in Swarthmore).
