Berkeley, CA

We never want to leave Berkeley.  It’s picturesque and charming and people actually recycle here.  Religiously. 

We live in a one bedroom apartment in a house that was built in 1905.  It’s a classic Berkeley Shingle style building with a redwood in the driveway.  Redwood trees!  Everywhere.  And a giant unidentified broad leafed tree framing our bay window. 

Berkeley has a walk score of 88.  I walk on 2-6mi on any given day depending on where I’m going.  You can walk everywhere here! To the grocery store, to the library, to a million cafes and restaurants and shops and theaters.  To the best Indian restaurant in the world.  That’s the best part!  The food!  Everything is delicious and everything is cheap.

People are obsessed with food here.  And not in a quantity over quality kind of a way.  Healthy eating is a way of life…one that I am trying very hard to adapt to.  The Berkeley Bowl is an indoor farmers market with about 90 different types of cucumbers.  I had a minor melt down the first time we went because what is the difference between a fancy cucumber and a Persian cucumber?  Isn’t anything that isn’t a regular cucumber kind of fancy?  An English cucumber is definitely fancy.  But not at the Berkeley Bowl.