Despite Chicago’s efforts to delay my travels to the east coast, I made it back to Boston safely yesterday afternoon. My trip to Berkeley and Madison was amazing, and I’m going to take some time to process my pictures and do a nice little write-up. Unfortunately, I don’t have that time right now. I’m busily [...]

I’m not sure when the desire to visit California became embedded in my mind, but it was a while ago. Maybe it was the first time I watched one of my favorite movies, The Shawshank Redemption, and Tim Robbins delivered the beautiful line, “I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in [...]