California Part 2

The Fairfield-Berkeley transition went quite smoothly. After breakfast, we packed the car, looked for a few local caches with no luck, and headed south. We did a tour of the Jelly Belly factory - which was quite fun, and picked up a few souvenirs for the kids. (Actually that might have been Monday). We headed into Berkeley to find our new hotel, drop our luggage off, and look for a few caches in the Midpenisula Open Space area. I got a cache that I needed for the Cachiversary challenge (placed on the day I started geocaching, 6/8/2013), so that was cool. In NY, while geocaching, I mostly have to worry about whether it's hunting season or not. Here, it's rattlesnakes, poison oak and mountain lions. Mountain lions?!

We ended up doing our most challenging hike, being a 3 terrain that was about a mile total length. The challenge was in how steep the trail was. All downhill to the cache, all uphill to the car. Hard work, but I'm proud to say, John handled it like a walk to the corner store, even though it was much harder for me.

When we finally decided about 2PM to head to SFO I was pleasantly surprised at how easy that trip was. No major traffic jams. Got the car returned with no major incidents (a minor one, I discovered on the AirTrain out of the garage that I had left my new hat in the car and we had to go back - wasted about 45 minutes that we could have been investigating SF - or not). Got our BART tickets, and with the help of a very nice lady found our way to Downtown Berkeley. More later.