[35-Days Trip 2010] Day 05 _ "California Sun" and "Fog City"

I have this California sunshine image in my head since.. I don't know how long ago, guess it's all from that song named after it. But it turns out that there are two songs sharing the same name regardless of tiny loss in translation. Anyway, enough to prove a global common sense that "it's always sunny in California", and whatever you went through before, come here, the sun will shine you from hair to toes...





Go back to my trip. I, however, landed in "Fog City"- the only exception, in my first visit to the sunny California, until the car crossed Bay Bridge and left the city with its spreading fog behind.

I only took a glance at #1 public college in US when passing through its main streets. Students were filling into this small town for a new semester and their faces were shining in Berkeley's sun. Something seems different from those Ivy schools along east coast,  I just don't know what it is...

Soon I were brought back to truly summer, which I hadn't felt ever since left New York. And then, it came with rows and rows of grapes - Napa Valley, home of famous California wine!

 

I had never been in a winery before. Listening to the story about how grapes grow in different grounds and provide different senses of taste to wine, I did feel out of myself for a while. Yes, that's after a small tasting, but I'm sure alcohol was not all it's about. I felt out there drunk in a scene of a movie - can't tell which one is richer and stronger, taste from the wine or story from the old winery...

"treasure digging"
on the way back to the city
 

That classical piece of fog hang right there above or may say in the middle of Golden Gate Bridge when we headed back to catch the sunset. I had chased sun once in Atlantic City, running under piers and piers along the beach to witness the moment when it jumped out of the sea, that was amazing!

Here again,
running towards the falling sun
against wind
wrapping around San Francisco Bay,
I chased sun all the way
to keep this moment for Golden Gate,

This night ended on the highest viewpoint in San Francisco near Sutro TV Tower. It was one of those moments beyond a camera could record, therefore, I decided to focus it with my eyes and saved it in my "memory".

*Sun and Fog, I love you both!