It's hard to believe I've been in the bay area for a bit over a year now.

Friends are the hardest thing to leave behind when you leave home.  Luckily for me, I do have one or two friends in the immediate area who I've known for years and years.  And of course, in the land of LA, I've got many friends.

But to you all, my Texas friends, as I sit here in the evening weather with temperatures that have dipped into the 50's, I am thinking of you and those wonderful swims at Barton Springs Pool.  And maybe stopping for juice at the stand just down the street.  A moonlit swim or kayaking on Town Lake and floating under the train trestle with the warm breeze and the sound of the cars clack-clack, clack-clack as it moves through the city in darkness of night.

Hugs and hopes to see you all soon.

The Urban Cliff Dweller