Wow! After visiting my parents I headed north to San Francisco and the start of MINI Takes The States 2014.  While I spent a few years in Bay Area while growing up, I don’t remember much of that time except for Japanese lunches visiting my dad at work and trips with my grandparents to FAO Schwarz (I ended up getting Dinky Space:1999 and UFO toys).  I’ve returned to the area time and again, enjoying the city and I’m happy to have any excuse to visit (like my wonderful sister in-law & her cat, Brad).  While I hit some of the highlights from our visit I left out a lot. I drove up from Los Angeles and picked put Sue at the airport.  So we headed north to Santa Rosa and the Schulz Museum which was as emotional an experience as the Calvin & Hobbes retrospective in Columbus, Ohio I saw months ago.  Talk about pulling geek heartstrings… we had lunch had “the Mothership” with Sue’s sister, and stopped by the Presidio to see Yoda at Lucasfilm, running into a MINI owner who was touring around.  We visited a close MINI friend and MINIon and ended the visit with a walk around the Mission… All in all a wonderful geek filled trip- with MTTS still in the future, but throughout the whole experience I felt like I was being watched.