Here are some photos from a fantastic weekend hike near Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. I went with Genia, a colleague from work, her husband and her brother. As you can see we had perfect weather! En route to the trail head along the Tioga Pass Road: Day 1:, Read More
With my apartment hunting out of the way a lot sooner than I planned, I was able to get up to Victoria to visit my friend Caroline, who I’ve known since the early days in Switzerland when she was over there as an au pair. Together we drove north all the way up and, Read More
I’ve really been enjoying the freedom of having a car recently, and on a lovely afternoon one weekend I went for a short drive to some corners of the city that are hard to get to without a car. The fog creeps in. , Read More
Before work begins I’ve been busy zigging and zagging across the city doing a million different things. I’ve had my camera with me (habit after traveling for so long!) and have snapped a few pics around the city. Here are a few: Sather Gate, at the southern entrance to UC Berkeley. , Read More
Once I flew back in to San Francisco my top priority was to find somewhere to live (and thanks to Margaret and Laura for putting me up when I first got back!). I gave myself a couple of weeks to find a place as I knew that decent places in the neighbourhoods I wanted, Read More
Before jetting off to Turkey to begin the Silk Road part of my trip, I took the chance to fly to Washington DC to see Adriana, who is working at the World Bank at the moment doing some really cool renewable energy stuff in South America. I hadn’t been in DC since I was, Read More
For Mum and Dad’s last full day in the US I suggested we rent a car and drive to Yosemite National Park, a 3-4 hour drive from San Francisco. We had an early start and were on the road by 7am. We got caught up in some of the peak hour traffic, stopped off, Read More
We flew down to Mexico the morning after my graduation. My parents had recently bought into a global timeshare and wanted to try it out for the first time in the Pacific coast city of Mazatlan. Our resort was the dated Balboa Towers, but what it lacked in style it made up for in, Read More
I celebrated my last night as an MBA student in style, inviting my family, Adriana and our family friend Arlene out for a lovely dinner at Julius’ Castle, a fancy restaurant about two blocks from my apartment up on Telegraph Hill with fantastic views of the bay, the Bay Bridge and the East Bay. , Read More
To celebrate the end of our MBAs we planned a bunch of activities to unwind, enjoy the moment and farewell many of our friends. It was a mirror image of the Orientation Week activities organized for us two years earlier, so it was aptly named Disorientation Week. OCEAN BEACH BONFIRE: This was a repeat, Read More