One week from today, I'll be arriving back home, jet-lagged and bleary-eyed, from an amazing weekend spent with some of my favourite people on the planet. I try not to focus on this fact, because as excited as I am, I know that LeakyCon will be over far too soon. Instead, I'm doing my best to savour this lead-up, the countdown which has gone from weeks to days. But, there will be plenty of time to talk about this next week. And the week after.
This week, I'm lucky enough to be exploring Northern California; San Francisco, in both sunshine and fog, was beautiful and quirky and full of life. The bay and the sea lions, the birds and the wind, fit together like pieces of a perfect puzzle. The redwoods are humbling, sheltering an entirely separate world underneath their dense green canopies. The rolling hills and farmers fields breathe health and vitality into the communities they surround. The cacti and bright flowers are the texture of the landscape.
It's all so different - the land and the people who live it. There is so much contrast: ocean and hills, rain and sun, small spiny bushes and towering soft redwoods, rich and poor, down to earth and head-in-the-clouds. The reality is far from the movie magic, but there is something about this place. It seems to attract people from all over, from all walks of life. It has something. I just can't seem to put my finger on it.
Unfortunately I have only one more day here, before boarding a tiny plane and flying up the coast. It has really been a brief breath of fresh air - air thick with moisture and the scents of so many trees, thick with life.
Goodnight, bloglings
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