My wife and I spent the past 4-5 days in California for my brother's wedding.  Beautiful wedding, and another post will show some of the fun we had, but this one's more about the Bay Area in general.  Having grown up there, I feel like I take it for granted that so many people from around the world actually come to the Bay Area to visit and be tourists.  I never did any of those traditionally touristy things like going to Alcatraz, or walking across the Golden Gate Bridge, or taking a cable car through San Francisco Chinatown.  Now that I don't live in the Bay Area anymore, I thought I'd do the tourist thing.  Only, tourist trips to my wife and I are a lot different these days because I've changed a lot over time and have developed new interests.  I love the outdoors now - I was definitely a city kid before I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2005.

Despite that, some things don't change.  I still love photographing city skyline at night.  Replace the quiet of the woods with the quiet of being atop an urban environment and watching it from afar.  Both are quiet and extremely peaceful.  

Bay Area SkylineView from Berkeley Hills