A Bay Area tour, plus some

For Dad's birthday a few years ago, Eryn and I took a trip to the Bay Area to see baseball and Dad's old stomping grounds. He loved showing us his special spots from his childhood - including his grandparents' house in Berkely:

Go Giants!

Dad's childhood home in Alamo:

He knocked on the door, and the people let us inside. It was much the same as 50 years ago.

San Ramon Valley High School:

Birthday boy!

Boston Strong support run with the family:

Walking for Dad

I'm walking May 20 in NAMIWalks in honor of my dad, who died in February after suffering a lifetime of serious mental illness.

NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness. 

Please consider joining me on my walk and/or contributing to my fund-raising campaign.

Click HERE for more information :)

Some clear themes

Looking through photos of Dad, there are some clear themes: food, celebrating, family, travel, hiking, baseball.

Birthday/Easter cupcakes at Ma and Pa's:

Birthday dinner at Benihana:

Celebrating Lindsey's graduation:

Biking to Round Table Pizza:

Firefighter pancakes!

Spaghetti Factory:

Round Table after Eryn's first half marathon:

Mo's:

Garage saling made him happy, even though he rarely bought a thing. We stopped at this Seaside sale while on a beach trip:

The weekend also included a hike:

And some ice cream:

Native Foods Cafe - not his favorite :)

Dad drove me to DMV after my license expired. He thought that was the funniest thing ever!

On the train to Mariners vs Giants:

He never minded stopping for a selfie and even hammed it up for me.

Sleepy Dad:

💓💔💓💔