Final preparations are underway for our first vacation of the year.  We'll be heading up to the Bay Area this week, hitting Hearst Castle, Monterey & Carmel, San Jose and San Francisco and visiting my brother brionv  and his fiancee, my aunt, and sekl  and
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Made it home from San Francisco. ~1200 miles since Wednesday. Covered Hearst Castle, Winchester Mystery House, Napa Valley, WonderCon, and points in between. Visited sekl and non_seqvitvr, as well as my brother and his fiancee.

Fun trip. Posted first 2 days during trip. Will post more soon. Now... to sleep.

Spent a good chunk of last night looking at travel websites. Accomplished 2 things:

• Arranged for a hotel to stay in San Francisco next month.
• Arranged for a back-up hotel for San Diego Comic Con, just in case we can't get a room through the convention desk.

( Hotels for SDCC are seriously scarce. )