The Bay Area

Sunset

Moonrise 

This bridge is neither golden nor does it have gates...

A "full flight" at Russian River apparently includes every beer they have on tap.

House party in San Fransisco. Nice view bro.

Indian Rock Park, Berkeley. Barring the polished holds, the bouldering was real fun.

Woah, what's with the crowd outside this big white building?

Ohhh... It's the Dalai Lama. Peace be with you too!

Made my way to the Bay area to meet up with Fabienne (with whom I travelled in South America) as well as Sebastian (who Fabienne and I met in Colombia, and now lives in SF). What a lovely part of the country! People left and right were smiling and saying hello. Had a great time catching up with both of them. 

I also checked out Russian River Brewery, home of the world famous Pliny. The bar was packed and I managed to find a single seat open at the bar. I sit down and who is sitting next to me but a man who grew up in Belchertown MA (where I'm from). Pondering the near zero odds of this happening hurts my brain. Of course we talked about treehouse the whole time.

I'm now on my way back towards Tahoe to climb with Sara again before Greg flies in on Tuesday. At the last second I decide to stop in Sacramento to check it out. I start walking around and see a crowd near the capital building. 20 minutes later, who walks out of the building but the Dalai Lama! Another really great coincidence (with this one being far more spiritual...). 

གཙང་སྤྱོད་ག་བ་ཡོད་པ་རེད། སྒུཀ་རེགས་གནང་།