A couple of weeks ago we found out that Karen Mulvany, whom we met @ the Galapagos Islands while on our National Geographic Expedition, is voted to be 'Citizen of the year' of her hometown Lafayette (near San Francisco). While it has been a year or so since I was in SF it seemed a perfect excuse to fly over and celebrate the occasion with Karen and her friends and family. It should have been a surprise - but as everything else in this age of Wikileaks our coming somehow was revealed to Karen... Maybe for the better, otherwise she would have had such a shock that she probably would not have recovered. In the mean time Eddie and I made such a huge shopping list that the only thing we will do in SF is shop till we drop. (As it turns out that is one of my favorite things to do!). BA flew us comfortable in our beds.