It’s been a minute.

Normally a quick trip to the Bay area would not have me blogging about it. However, this trip was special for two main reasons:

1. It is my first real solo trip since COVID hit in March 2020. That is TWO LONG YEARS people! TWO LONG YEARS! I didn’t even realize how impactful that has been on me until I came here. Whew! I am a traveler and that is just how it is.
   
2. By happenstance, I stayed in a yurt. Well, no, that is not true. I didn’t stay in the yurt by happenstance – I stayed in the yurt on purpose. The happenstance part was that the yurt was just a couple of miles away from Jack London National Park (though I now think of it as Charmian and Jack London National Park).

So this whole trip really came about because I attended a YouCubed math workshop. And I am going to be brutally honest here: it wasn’t that great. The content was fine, the ideas were lovely, and it was all good stuff – except – I just couldn’t face a room full of that many teachers. Playing with geoboards and pipe cleaners. Again, nothing wrong with that, you do you, all the words. But to be in the Bay Area and sit in a room in Palo Alto listening to teachers waffle on about this and that….that part was tricky for me.

But there were so many other great and amazing parts AND the conference was necessary or I wouldn’t have come here.