Next week we will road trip to my homeland: Wisconsin. Every year we go we take the exact same route. There is a comfort to repetitive travel, and my son loves that comfort. He especially looks forward to Mt. Rushmore and we will all love it.
I too, have a favorite repetitive travel place: San Francisco.
I first traveled to The Golden Gate City for my 30th birthday. I wrote about this once in 2021 as a "Flashback Friday" post.
I also went with my school(and my Mom) for training in Oakland.
Most recently, I took my little family to The Bay Area in April for my nephew's wedding.
It was special to see my kids experience California for the first time. The beach was their favorite place and they could have gone every day.
Muir Woods is one of my favorite places. I could only visit there and would be okay with it. It is fun to be dwarfed by these majestic coastal redwoods. I didn't know, but these trees can consume up to 500 gallons of water daily. In fact, these trees only exist along the coast in California because they are built to absorb water found in fog through special top branches. Miraculous!
I taught Reub the joy of riding cable cars on the outside. Riding those cars around the city makes me feel like a kid again. I was sad that we missed the Cable Car Museum. The kids would have found seeing the running cables underground impressive, but we were on a time crunch.
It was an honor to witness my nephew Kris marry Nikki. It was a gorgeous ceremony in a gorgeous place.
Showing my sister, her husband, and her mother-in-law the beach sites and The Golden Gate Bridge was also a fun adventure.
Like Tony Bennett, I may have "left my heart in San Francisco," but I will always have the memories to entertain me.
