We are so getting ready, we are packing our icebox with cold cuts, pasta salads and a few bottles of chardonnay. We do not enjoy carrying the cooler on muni, even though the K and M lines go there, so we drive along the Great Highway, adding yet another pleasure to our day. Hellish parking does dampen the mood for a short while, but the hike down the hidden and secluded grove make us feel like John Muir and all perky again. Redwood swaying in the breeze, birds chirping, the smell of the eucalyptus, this is what California looked like, we like to daydream, before this city sprung here.