We’re heading back to Washington in a few hours! I still have a few things to pack, but there’s time enough for me to resume that task later.

Vacations are such strange things, really. I feel like you always try to document them as thoroughly as possible (with such earnest effort that it almost seems one is trying to validate the experience and confirm that, yes, indeed, it was worthwhile), but, in the end, the thing you are most trying to capture — in words, in pictures, in trinkets and keepsakes — will invariably elude you.

Or something like that.

For me, it looks like I’ll be leaving California with painted toes, a few extra pounds from the non-stop eating (at least, I hope it’s only a few), souvenirs galore, a deeper bond with my DS Lite (complete with the level-ups, battle conquests, and high scores to prove it), a fresh perspective, and a lot of memories.

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