A spectacular day. Foggy when we awoke after a good, long, deep slumber in the Captain Paladini room at
The Inn at Benicia Bay, the sun made quick inroads and the blue sky dominated before long. We headed off for a jog around the Benicia Marina and Yacht Club, following the shore along the wetlands and looking for interesting waterfowl. A few ducks and plenty of seagulls, but mostly dogs on the ends of leashes accounted for the morning "wildlife" viewing.
Back to
the inn for breakfast and a little work, then off to the marina to meet
Mark Engelhardt and his lovely wife,
Roseanne for a sail on Carquinez Straight. Play this audio clip which Mark and I recorded while sailing his handsome sloop.
Only a light breeze as we set out and enjoyed lunch, but the winds picked up a bit and provided an opportunity for for each of us to "play captain" for a while. Only a few other sailboats shared the bay with us, and yet the conditions were perfect. After several hours on the water, we headed back to the
Benicia Studios (where Mark practices his techie art and Roseanne her ceramic art) and met up with
Scott Zoog and
Erika Von Zoog at
Studio 113. All sorts of funky glass and metal sculptures, and a look "behind the scenes" at
TheOwlCam.com... Pretty groovy!
Then back into the gas guzzling Dodge Durango for a traffick-choked drive into San Francisco for pre-supper massages and a glimpse into the super trendy
W San Francisco. But I'm getting ahead of myself. More on that later.
