About a year ago, B and I vacationed in California for a week. I jotted down notes about all the places we’d been and things we’d done each day, and shortly after we got back I spent a day and a night bashing the keyboard so they’d all be part of the amazing chronicle of my action-packed life that I have invited you to refer to as drivel. I promised that I would expand on the notes later and, wonder of wonders, here’s the first installment. You’re welcome.