July 3, 2021

July 3, 2021 

Today we got a surprise visit from my niece and her family and I couldn’t have been more delighted. We had a chance to catch up, but also take time to preserve our collective memories. I’d nearly forgotten the road trip we “kidnapped” her on. She told her work that there was a death in the family and she had to go to Germany. We found some vaguely European buildings to photograph in Berkeley in our Kerouacian journey that took us up the California coast. We visited other family and friends, paid homage to Cody’s and City Lights, old growth redwoods, and perhaps a not-so-nude beach. We were a bad influence, and I wouldn’t change a thing.