The Widowed Yogi: san fran... i heart you

so i headed to san fran this week/weekend for work and play. i headed into my firm's san jose office on wednesday before heading downtown that evening and spending some QT in the city. i have a few friends in the city so i made some jam packed plans to visit with all of them in the day in a half that i had some free time. the last time that i was in the city by the bay was about seven and a half years ago...

matt had been working in SF on his consulting gigs and i planned to make a trip out to meet him. if i am honest, i knew something was up because he had made all the arrangements himself and had not asked a lot of input on trip planning from me. and well, if i am really honest, i may have snuck a peek at an email or two. i've never been one for suprises. i flew into SFO and took the Bart to meet him downtown. little did i know that where i was staying this trip was a couple of blocks from where we stayed in union square. as i drove by one of the famous artistic hearts just a few steps from my hotel, i realized that was where matt and I had posed for a photo op all those years ago. i defintily got choked up. it has been a long time since i felt a connection with a place with matt. this was a place i had only been with him so i couldn't help but be reminded of our time there together.

while i stayed in the city this trip to do some more exploring, matt and i's trip took a different turn. after staying in the city for only about a day and half, we headed down the PCH to big sur. on our drive is where he pulled over and proposed to me by a bench that we happened to stumble upon on the coast that had carved into it; "into her arms he dove to begin his new journey."

the trip bought back some wonderful memories. it had been a long time since i have been in place that reminded me so much of him and felt so much like our place. i had a great trip though; got a lot done for work and got to see many friends from different stages of my life. while i had enjoyed my stay in San Fran, some time in a hustling bustling city only helped reinforce i am exactly where i need to be right now. as soon as i got back to SD, i headed for the ocean and was even greeted by dolphins along my morning run today. welcome back to paradise!