You have no idea how happy I was yesterday: Mike called me at work to let me know that we have a new home! It’s been many months of Craigslisting… intially fun but finally excruciating. This is when the lesson of rejection kicks in: when perfectly nice, responsible people with income are repeatedly denied housing. Well, I’m exaggerating because we only ended up applying to about 5 places but situation after situation just blew up on us, like a soda can that’s been on a bumpy bike ride. We finally found a sweet 1-bedroom on California in South Berkeley but the hunt was long and hard.
Anyways I wanted to mainly share with you the weekend I spent in beautiful Bolinas/Pt Reyes area. Mike, Sequoia and I came to visit Lana at the mill/farm she’s staying at in Dogtown. 
What a wonderful piece of land to spend your days–there were chickens, goats, rabbits, Mastiffs, little yappy pups, a mini-farm and a whole lot of serenity. Madison was also in town that weekend so we found an empty beach to spend Saturday night. For about half an hour, Sequoia and I were the only two warm-blooded creatures on the entire beach and I felt glass-shattering freedom. We drank some wine, ate some peanut butter, saved some shored-up jellyfishes and we were happy folks.
The day after, we spent the day at Limantour Beach which was also astounding. Naptime, skin burns, jogging along the kisses of the ocean, sandplay, and stuffing huskies under self-made shaded tents. I feel a longing to be by the beach again–I was tempted to want to go back to San Diego and live in Ocean Beach. I miss the OB pier and being woken up by the morning breeze… I’ll be back in San Diego soon.
