Point Reyes lighthouse

Around the Super Bowl, the Bay Area was experiencing 1) a lot of congestion and other annoyances related to the game being held here and 2) absurdly delightful weather. Being from the Mid-Atlantic, I’m used to February being the worst month of the year, and sure enough my family is recovering from the recent blizzard plus another few inches they received on top of it, with highs routinely in the 20s. Meanwhile, the trees are blossoming here, there are daffodils blooming in my yard, and we’ve had temperatures near 80. It’s left me a little bewildered, honestly. In Virginia, I’d emerge from winter sometime in April feeling shell-shocked from snow and ice and cold and antsy from being trapped in the house so frequently. Here, though, it was cold-ISH for like a day and by the first week in February, what passes for winter was apparently done. Though it felt premature I reacted the same way I always do to spring, which is to GO OUTSIDE EVERY SECOND POSSIBLE. So, the day before the Super Bowl, I headed out to Point Reyes. I decided to check out the lighthouse as I hadn’t seen it before.

Funny little story: I emailed my parents a link to all the photos I took when i got home that night. Mark and I went to Brad and April’s to watch the game (well, really we went there to see Brad and April since neither of us even remotely care about the game). During the game, they at one point threw up still images of some iconic Bay Area sites and one of the pictures they showed was of the Point Reyes lighthouse. Well, my brother was at the parental homestead watching the game with my father, and he had happened to see my mother looking at my photos earlier in the day, and when they showed the picture of the lighthouse, he said, “hey, that’s where Renae was yesterday!” Meanwhile at Brad and April’s house, I saw the same photo and exclaimed, “hey, I was just there yesterday!”. Honestly, the Point Reyes lighthouse is a LOT of work to see (300 narrow stairs to climb down, and worse, back up), but it’s also on the whale migration route so you can whale watch from there, which to me is more interesting, but I don’t think I saw any whales. Here’s the famous lighthouse though:

Point Reyes lighthouse

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