On the Road With Jess, Alyssa & Kyle

We’re in Salt Lake City and the girl who checked us into our hotel was most certainly Mormon, at least by Big Love standards. We got in at 2am and it’s 6am now and we have to get on the road to Denver for the DNC. We’re exhausted. We got in so late because we decided to take an impromptu trip to Lake Tahoe. We had met this amazing interracial gay couple in their 70’s at a vista overlooking Donner Lake. They suggested we hit Tahoe because it was only 30 minutes south. So we did! We got picnic food and sunbathed (slash sunburned) and swam in Lake Tahoe. It was honestly the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life: this pristine blue lake surrounded by giant clumps of untouched forest. We haven’t uploaded the pictures from yesterday onto my computer yet, but once we do you’ll be able to see what I mean.

San Francisco was amazing, by the way. On our last day we hung out in Berkeley: I took a class there when I was 17 and it is truly one of my favorite places on earth. We went to all my old stomping grounds: the smoke shop, the lawn near Sather Gate, the vintage shops on Telegraph. It felt delicious to be home. On our final night we stayed in Kyle’s Aunt’s amazing house in the Mission. It was essentially a hippie den and we loved every minute of it, hanging out on the back porch surveying the scenery, sleeping in her art studio surrounded by gorgeous paintings dripping with gold varnish. Alyssa and I decided it was our dream house.

Anyway, here are some pictures: