Mid summer madness

Julie and I leave tomorrow on a brief excursion to a remote region of the East Bay in order to witness the joining of Trav and Jenny in ecological wedlock. As this photo attests, they have already found happiness together so now they must be looking for something else. We wish them all the best.

I made hotel and car reservations online and early enough to get pretty good rates. I just printed out my confirmations and my Microsoft Streets & Trips map and directions, routing us from inner urban San Francisco to wooded hinterlands somewhere near a Berkeley and Oakland border. How did I ever travel pre-Internet?