Jackson and I are back from a whirlwind fall break trip to the Bay Area.  It was a jam-packed 6 days in which we covered almost 6000 miles.  Most of that was by air but 1300 miles was on the ground. We had layovers in Las Vegas on the way out and Chicago on the return.

The first day was 18 hours long – the last 20 hours with an average of 15 or so.  It was grueling but we had a wonderful time.

We began in Silicon Valley checking out Apple and Google HQ’s, the Computer History Museum, driving by some of the famous start-up garages and otherwise geeking out the first day or so. Day 2 we toured Stanford after which we switched to more typical tourist stuff for the remainder of the trip.

I have been wanting to do a little web programming so I thought the trip would be a good excuse to launch this blog. It will also serve as a record of our trip for Jackson. Don’t expect any fancy writing – that’s not my thing.  Please forgive any transgressions in my grammar.   Also we packed light. All photos are from my 2 year old iPhone and quickly edited with free online software.  I’m actually pretty happy with how some of the photos turned out. Since I’m new at this blogging business I cut a few corners. It’s not as polished as many others you will see.  I had hoped to publish daily updates but there just wasn’t time.

Since I did use a blog template please note the postings are in reverse order. The last day’s entries are first – the first day is last.