NursingZen

I’ve got one word for the San Francisco Bay area in September: Spectacular. I didn’t want to be any place else for my break. I love how the bay dazzles with sunlight all day, how weeks of 80 degree weather turned my skin the color of caramel, how the winds from the Pacific ocean make my bike rides a breeze and how the colors at the farmers’ markets remind me that it’s actually fall, not summer. My connection to the Bay area is getting stronger!

In the beginning of the break I had a list of goals and projects (nursing school/nursing= obsession with time management), but thankfully, I think, the list flew out the window by day 2. Suddenly I had the kind of summer vacation I wished I had when I was growing up: carefree, with an abundance of new experiences and new people.

(A digression: Summer vacations when I was little were boring and dreary: While my friends went to camp or played on the streets, my evil stepmother kept me captive in my dark railroad apartment and loomed over me, ruler slapping in her hand, as I practiced math problems and was forced to teach her English. Later, summer vacations during college were fraught with stress about making money to support myself =(.)

This time, I had no worries. Every day I secretly thanked the universe–and my man–for the gifts of unemployment and student life (amazing!).

Highlights:

• 12-mile bike ride to Sausalito
  
• Family weekend at the Russian River
  
• Hiking from Mt. Tamalpais to Stinson Beach
• Rock climbing at Mission Cliffs
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  Farmers’ market

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