Goodbye, Tarah . . . Tarah, the last of my traveling friends, rolled out of the Bay Area Sunday morning with her mom to help drive the post-night-shift-sleep-deprivation-induced-intoxication-ridden-night-nurse on the first days of driving back to Minne-SOH-ta. It is the end of a mini-era. Sure, there will always be more people to meet and to become friends with, but these were the original Fab Five Travelers and friends I met when I first came to California. They are special. Tarah heads to NYC to start her new assignment there at the end of the month. She's been great fun to have around and I will miss her unique sense of humor, sarcasm and wit. I will probably miss her Minne-SOH-tan accent more than anything! Okay, maybe I won't miss it the most of all, but I will miss it and laugh to myself when I think about it. Soh long, Tah-rah! Enjoy the East Coast, again! : ) California is finally warming up and finally feeling ...