Today I leave for a glorious week in San Francisco. I am so excited I'm about to burst! It's been more than three years since I moved from the Bay Area to Houston, and this will be my first trip back. There are days when my heart aches for the bay and the hills and the fog, and I have been looking forward to this week for months now. I'm going for work (a conference that runs Monday through Thursday) but will do plenty of playing as well. I'll be around Stanford tomorrow, then in San Francisco till Thursday, then a night in Berkeley, followed by a quick weekend in Yosemite National Park before returning to Houston.

The photoblog is on auto-pilot through Wednesday as I re-live a few photos from deep in my archives. If I am able to update from San Francisco, daily photos will continue through the week. If not, I'll be back on the 22nd. I should be updating my Flickr stream via cell phone camera.

This is the view (circa 2002) of the Stanford campus and beyond taken from the hills near the "Dish" behind campus. The prominent building is Hoover Tower.