{"id":601,"date":"2026-06-21T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:29:11","slug":"random-thoughts-post-vacation-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/random-thoughts-post-vacation-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts&#8230;.post-vacation edition&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I returned from a two-week vacation to my former\/ancestorial home region of Northern California. Here are some random thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The day light sky on the West Coast is subtlety but noticeably different than Kentucky. I suspect its due to the dominate climate force being the ocean and the jet stream.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Lake Tahoe remains one of my very favorite places on the planet. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Traffic is worse in the Bay Area than it was when I left 22 years ago&#8230;.and it sucked back then. To be fair, traffic has worsened here in the Cincinnati area, but it is still nowhere near as bad as California. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For me, nowhere on this planet is more haunted by memories than Sonoma County. It feels like I have a memory linked to every square mile of that county. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>While Vallejo, California continues to decline economically, it still has the best burger place on the planet (i.e. Bud&#8217;s). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I miss the Pacific Ocean, redwood trees, the Central Valley&#8217;s dry heat, and the Sierra Mountains greatly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Bay Area will always be home to me. But no regrets moving to where I&#8217;m at now. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned from a two-week vacation to my former\/ancestorial home region of Northern California. Here are some random thoughts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[115,117,118,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanimberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}