In all, our packs each weigh around 30 pounds, which shouldn't be too unmanageable.
An appropriate theme for the start: obsession with pack weight... and with digestion
Mmmmm, live typhoid!
Before leaving San Francisco we gathered our various tribes for a farewell meal at Bissap Baobab on Mission in SF, for fried plantains and French-speaking waiters just minutes from home...
Elizabeth and Rosey
Rosey and Carey
Z and new yoga friends
Rebecca, Ed, and Marty
Blake and Tim
Then, before packing up to make way for our subletter, Prithika, we made our way up to Jenner, on the coast, to go to our friends Melanie and Scott's wedding.
Ewok Village camping at its finest...
...including our own mascot
Sea lions relaxing in a cove
Can we really share a tent or hostel or moped for a year?
All dressed up
Ruby, the "best dog," joins the ceremony
The happy couple
Melanie's friends and family folded 1,003 paper cranes for the wedding
Back to SF to fill boxes and prepare to move out for a year.
Boxing up everything but the travel guides (in high style)
We somehow got a truck and trailer onto our tiny street, packed up, and departed the Mission for Claremont.
Marty's dad generously helped us move all our stuff in this nifty trailer
Californian Gothic (and our worldly goods)
Visiting with Liz and Jim Fuller, Marty's grandparents
'Feathered Edge' at the MOCA/Pacific Design Center
Then we headed up to Mammoth for a week of hiking and camping before setting off for Hawai'i and then to India.
Heading north on 395 with the massive Mt. Williamson in the rearview
Hiking from Agnew Meadows to Thousand Island Lake
At Thousand Island Lake; Marty's hat is almost as big as Mount Ritter
Tent life
War and Peace by headlamp
Rain at Saddlebag Lake
Botanizing
Bouldering
Posing at the Bachar Boulders
Heavy weather at Manzanar
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