Fleeing the smoke, there are major fires near our place in Willow Creek. Here we are visiting family and friends in the Santa Ynez Valley, just inland from Santa Barbara. Visited good friends in Palo Alto on our way down. Bugged their cat with our rambunctious youngsters.
Visiting our old Aikido Dojo and friends there. They have an incredible new place in the mountains and will be moving up there next month and starting to work on a new dojo.
I also met with friends, clients, fellow contractors in Santa Barbara. It's so good to see everyone.
I've taken the entire office on the road and have been fairly productive. Makes it not a vacation, but it's closer than it would have been had I stayed home...
It's nice down here and I look forward to going home again.
Current wildfire information:
http://www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/nfn.html
Dated: 08/07/2002