Alone in Petaluma, I longed for a good walk on the beach. Fortunately enough for me, a lovely girl by the name of Jaime decided to long for the same thing. In the course of a couple weeks we drove Highway 1 through Big Sur straight to my house, attempted to geocache on the Kehoe Trail, climbed through Muir woods (and fell once or twice... but no more than twice), and roamed the lands of my hometown San Simeon. We even happened upon a very nice looking castle, but that's not until September! These trips were the perfect breaks between my long weeks at the TRG internship. While work was an absolute learning experience, my first home is truly the outdoors, and it's comforting to visit it as often as possible.