California dreamin'

Greetings from the "bay area"! We're in our second week living in Berkeley, just around the corner from the Grateful Cafe, where all the menu items are raw, local, and sustainably prepared and they ask when you order, "what do you appreciate about yourself?" Classic. There's a festival coming up called "how Berkeley can you be" ...

I'm here to study at the county hospital in Oakland, but we've managed to find enough time to explore San Fran as well - clam chowder at Fisherman's Warf, the cable cars, aquarium, etc. It's beautifully sunny here and we are staying in the huge house of a doctor from the hospital where I am working - when everyone's home, Joe and Adelaide have a cat, a dog, and 3 kids to keep them busy in between adventures.