We rolled into Santa Barbara last night after a beautiful drive down the Pacific coast highway through Monterey, Big Sur, Cambria, and then ...

Another great day on the UC-Santa Cruz campus. While dear son met with physics department faculty and grad students I wandered the campus an...

We visited the campus at UCSC today and I love it. It's a bit outside the main part of town and as you approach it looks almost like a h...

We spent a quiet day in Palo Alto yesterday, in a terrific little place called Creekside Inn which had very well-appointed rooms and balconi...

They're busy getting ready for graduation tomorrow so the place is bustling but not as much as it would be during a regular semester, ob...