Written by Sorry for prolonged silence here at R&K. It’s been one of those periods where it seems like all kinds of crappy things happened in rapid succession and it was honestly too hard to write about it all.
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Still here
Meeting Neil Gaiman
Written by Living near San Francisco has its perks. History. Food. Beautiful architecture. Nearly perfect weather for most of the year. We don’t get over to the city as often as we would like – a few times a year – but when we do, it’s always an experience.
You also never know who you may meet.
So several months ago, our friend Alicia posted something on her Facebook page about writer Neil Gaiman doing a signing tour for his new book, Ocean at the End of the Lane. Neil has sworn to make this his last signing tour, as he’s getting older and the tour grind is beyond exhausting.
One of his tour stops was San Francisco, and thanks to Alicia and the Facebook grapevine, Kristi heard about the event almost as soon as the tickets went on sale.
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The Hunt For Good Books
We had a great time in Hawaii. It was a desperately needed vacation for both of us – and us together – and we’re home much relaxed and with recharged batteries.
Whenever we’re traveling, I don’t feel like our trip is truly complete without a bookstore hunt, the funkier and more independent the better. In Kauai, it turned out that there were only two real bookstores, and one of them – Borders – was long closed by the time we got there. So we tooled over to the other side of the island (oh the suffering, the suffering.. miles of Pacific coastline and lush green) to visit the Talk Story Bookstore. Without a doubt, it met all my critical funky and independent book browsing needs in Hawaii, and when you’re in the area I strongly recommend checking it out.
Actually finding the right book, that’s a different challenge.
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Kauai
We left for Kauai on Monday evening before an early morning flight from San Jose. 4am is an inhumane time to be awake for 2 insomniacs but we managed. Thankfully we set a second alarm because my cell phone battery died when the outlet it was plugged into turned off during the night. Crisis averted.
We flew to Seattle and then onto Lihue for a total flight time of 8 hours. We were exhausted and still had to drive up to Anini Beach (about 45 minutes north of the airport). I think I drove in a daze mostly but it was all worth it.
It really looks exactly like this. Wow.
We are about 300 yards from the beach.
We’ve spent the last few days relaxing, not doing much but swimming and snorkeling. I’d never done it before but we took some gear from the house and I’m adventure girl! We’ve seen all sorts of fish and huge sea turtles. The turtles are just.. breathtaking to watch. They are graceful and so placid as they swim and feed. It’s a slice of heaven.
I think this is the best vacation we’ve ever taken and there’s still 6 days to go.