Saturday morning, Juliette dropped me off at the airport. Tearful goodbye!
Here’s the airport from the plane:
This is what the forest fires in Yosemite looked like from the plane:
I took this picture because I thought it was cool to see the cloud and the shadow it cast:
I talked mad shit all week in SF about how I missed the green of home (minus when we were at the Redwoods), and I can’t tell you how happy it made me to see all this green on the approach to DTW:
I’m going to try and be more grateful for the seasons and the space and the trees and I don’t even know what else. Look at the green!
Brian fetched me and took me to dinner. Hooray!
NOW TO THE PENCILS PORTION OF THIS POST:
First, Juliette got me these Hawaii pencils, and there’s a bonus syringe pen and “Get the lead out” pencil:
These are the pencils from the official Alcatraz gift shop. They are made from recycled jeans, and you can read the rules that are on the pencils on the packaging:
Alcatraz pencils from shops in Fisherman’s Wharf:
Other miscellaneous tourist pencils I accumulated:
Pencils from the MB Aquarium:
shane! shane! come back!