We have been sticking pretty close to home since our most recent Southwestern trip, but we have been doing some noteworthy (at least to me) stuff that I thought I would share. In early October we attended a gathering of the Ohlone peoples who were the original human residents of our area of th San Francisco Bay. A Dance, there were also food and crafts booths. Replica canoe Guide interpreter Dugout habitation, folks moved every spring. These houses got wet in winter Almost a then and now image. From here you can almost imagine what the land looked like before Europeans, except for the power stanchion. About a week later I took my most ambitious walk since the surgery, up Flag Hill in Sunol. It rises about 1200 feet in a mile and is pretty rugged in spots. Two images from a random drive along the Great Highway to the west of downtown San Francisco And, finally, after the November Ohio Pen Show I visited Cincinnati to see my old...