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Mendocino Botanical Garden, originally uploaded by judywatt.

I think we will have to go up the coast again next weekend, on Caesar Chavez Day, which is a state holiday in CA. Joe says he can't take any days off in April. The pic is from 2003, many cameras ago, but it's one of my fave faves of the MCBG.

In May he has some vacation time allotted but I think we are going in the other direction then - east to Yosemite, then south along the remote eastern side of the Sierra to Death Valley and Joshua Tree, then west to the coast and north back to SF. No need to leave California to get five different climates and terrains. :)

And that is how we plan to spend our upcoming "rebate"... helping out the CA economy by traveling up and down the state in May.  We did not get much of a refund, and I already used it to pay current bills.  But at least we did not owe any extra on top of the bazillions we already paid in withholding.