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I’ve been kicking it up around in San Francisco for a little over a year.  I really love this city warts and all.  The weather is one of the best things about the city.  Its rarely too hot, or too cold.  Its always just nice and mild!  Its been an amazing experience living in a city that’s so full of cultural vibrancy, the let be and let be attitude of everyone and meeting to many geniune people.

Yet, it is time to move on.  My heart looks out east, back to Bishop.

It was a little less than two years ago, I stood in front of my little rental cottage as I bid my parents farewell as they drove back to Phoenix.  They had come up to Bishop for two days to help me pack up my meager posessions into my truck so that I could drive home to Minneapolis.

It was a bittersweet day for me.  I was finally wrapping up my stay in Bishop.  It was the realization of a dream I’d had for a long time to actually live in Bishop, doing nothing but climb rocks day in and day out.  But it was hardly the end of that dream that I’d imagined, taking that nasty spill off Jedi Mind Tricks and blowing up my foot, not even two months into my stay, and a unfinished tick list a mile long??

So as I drove away from Bishop it was that frustration of unfinished business that gnawed on my head.  I was unsure if I’d ever return to live here again, but I think in my heart – I knew I would.

In a week.  I’ll return to Bishop to make it my home again for the winter.  I’ll be joined this time by a friend of mine from NYC, Leo.  I’m sure I’ll be blogging about it and sharing more photographs over the days.  I am truly excited to return and I invite you to join me once more again, my friends.