chase the light

Greetings from the woods! I’m building a log cabin. Wait! That doesn’t look like the Macworld Expo? It isn’t because the Macworld kinda blew this year. Yeah yeah, they introduced the MacBook Air and it was boring, but that’s what makes having the show in San Francisco so nice! You’re IN San Francisco. So whatev, I’m going to go look at trees and be hippie like.

On the way up I stayed at the Santa Nella Motel 6. Can I just tell you how awesome Motel 6’s are? Come on!! They’re like 5 dollars to stay at and you get HBO, convenience, and most have a pool! Come on! Just look at this bed spread! Seriously awesome! It’s like a Jackson Pollock in quilt! It’s got a skier, a dog, a truck, a woodie wagon, a flamingo, a bear, a saguaro cactus, a canoe, niagara falls, canadian geese, shells, a dude fishing, a beautiful city skyline AND it’s customized with a Motel 6 sign! I dare you to try and find them all. It’s just begging me to steal it and take home so I can have that *on the road* feeling every night!

Anyway, I had a day before the show started to muck about so I went up to Muir Woods and hiked through the park. Really nice considering how close it is to the city. I still prefer the Humboldt Redwoods State Park, it’s not even close, but to get your extremely tall tree fix in about 20 minutes from the city it’ll set you right up.

I like how the tree timeline below shows the tree is 1021 years old. At its age of 999, to protect the grove, the Muir Woods National Monument was established. 22 years later the *Tree falls*? Lights out. Goodnight. Draw your own conclusions.

I spent the next day at the Expo before driving home. Spoke to the people at Blurb books and saw lots of examples. They look really nice and I got a couple buttons.