Berkeley, Oakland, and Alameda.
We spent the night at Cynthia and James, and left Friday morning heading back to meet with some more of Kaye’s closest friends.
We pretty much spent the day socializing once with got back to the Bay Area, first having lunch with Dave and then meeting his girlfriend Bailey, and then joined by Brian (the other Brian 😊) and Cora, his little dog, who shares a very nice apartment with Dave and Bailey.
Kaye’s close friends are a great bunch, and each interesting and interested in the world, and skilled, in their own ways, and all sharing some common beliefs, interests, and values, including being musicians or artists, or in Bailey’s case, an actor, and their love of board and video games, which are a significant and important part of their lives, in some cases professionally as well as for pleasure.
We headed over the Alameda, it’s own small island, where we connected with Travis, another really interesting person, and also met his girlfriend Kim, where they’ve just moved into their new house. I spent some time talking to him about 3D printing, which he’s been doing for a few years now.
Alameda, like San Rafael, has a thriving downtown, and seems a nice place to live. Nice places to eat and interesting stores, and a seemingly young town.
We headed back to Kaye’s apartment, and that’s about it. I’ve enjoyed my time with Kaye, and spending some time with her friends is good.
Tomorrow I head back out, heading down to Marguerite in southern California, and will probably arrive Sunday night. I wrote when Kaye joined me in Denver, about 2 weeks ago, that the focus would be different now, moving from solitude to interactivity, which is exactly what happened. Now, the focus will shift back to solitude for a couple of days, until meeting up with Marg and Mark on Sunday, but after that back to that solitude. It will be interesting to get back to just my own thoughts, much as I’ve enjoyed and benefitted from being with Kaye, and especially traveling together, and much as I’m sad to be leaving Kaye tomorrow.
In talking to Brian earlier, I found yet another way to describe this journey I’m taking. It’s a distraction (the journey, that is) away from my “regular’ life (whatever that is now, after Bev), but in which I hope that when the distraction ends and I return to my routine life at home, something in my thinking will have changed, helping me to make the adjustment I know I’ll have to make.