Another week in the bay, and everyone is a doctor.
They officially gave us their bike. The Chilean couple. It’s awesome. We do need to get a bike pump, and we already had to get the brake cables replaced, but still, its awesome and we’ve been wanting one ever since we got into the boat life!
We were in Berkeley to see my high school friend Ben. Ben got his Ph.D from Berkeley in August and his girlfriend Katie will graduate in June. Ben lives in a Sprinter van, so it was fun to compare the experience of the land based version of our life. Plus it was fun to talk to doctors studying immunology in this day and age.
With all guests, priority #1 is taking a dinghy ride.
We motored out of the Berkeley marina for a spectacular view of the bay and the bridge, a group selfie, and a view of the “Chubby Girl”. If you want a half hour of entertaining reading, the blog explains everything – but basically an old dude wants to set the record for shortest boat to ever sail to Hawaii. It’s 9 feet.
The next day we got a tour of Berkeley. It’s a cool town with tons of amazing food.
We hiked the hill and saw down onto the Berkeley football stadium and saw over Oakland and the bay.
We collected lemons just walking down the sidewalk (mind blowing), and visited the Hispanic grocery and got back to the boat.
The next day we motored against a strong current to Angel Island. We hiked around the island, explored the abandoned buildings, and pulled up some crabs!
Then we wanted to save money so we motored to Richmond and got the cheapest marina yet at $24 a night. Plus they had free ice so that makes it the best marina ever.
Troy, my best man, had a childhood friend who also is a Berkeley grad who wanted to grab a drink so we invited him and his girlfriend to enjoy a dinghy ride picnic. We putzed around the marina looking at all the boats, gossiping about Troy, and talking about the future of batteries (their concentrations). So we’ve officially had 4 straight doctors visit Scooter.
The next day we got up early and motored to Aquatic Cove and met my childhood friend Annie and her husband Steve. She’s a nurse practitioner and he just finished his Ph.D so now we are up to 6 doctor visitors in a row. They have a tiny house in Santa Cruz so they were also interested in comparing tiny living notes.
The next couple nights will be with Tay’s high school friends. Although they aren’t doctors, their energy level is unmatched.
Also I’m sorry this was a day late. We were back at Angel Island last night, but this time had zero cell service (idk why they think this is the tech center of the universe).