CALIFORNIA MUSING

wine country touring, tasting, and hot tubbing; City Lights books and Berkely books(Moe's and Codys); Oakland and crossing the bridge in a traffic jam; Dim Sum at Yang Sink; family dinners and shabbat; Trader Joe's; best bagels and espresso around; dogs and dog dander; $140 bottles of wine; heat waves and cool cool nights; missed planes and hotel room and waiting room waits; experimental Berkley theater; Chinese and Japanese lunches; homesick and sorrowful.