Wanderers

From Marge:

When Anne and I were out visiting in California, I suggested to Anne we go over to the DeYoung Museum at Golden Gate because I hadn't seen the new design, and of course Mike was game. First we took a couple of buses and then we walked in the fog. Then we got to the museum and found out we had arrived on the day it was closed. Then we wandered through the museum garden for a while. Then we went over to the Japanese tea gardens (paying customers!) and wandered around there for a while. Then we had tea. Then we decided to walk home through the park. We got into the jungly part of the Rhododendron grove and got completely lost! Anne, Mike and I had three different ideas of which way was "home." So first we tried one way, then the second, then the third. After wandering around for what seemed like a couple of hours (discovering a deep, dank, lake and making several other wilderness sightings) we came back out at last to civilization. What I remember about that episode was the extreme good humor, even cheer, shown by your dad/grandpa. You would have thought we had planned the whole thing on purpose! He acted as though it was all a grand adventure. I was flagging and had had enough long before he was ready to call it quits. And THEN, after we finally found the way out, we hiked up to USF to pick up something for Dan from the giftshop. What a spirit of adventure he had! That's what I'll miss.