Berkeley

During our trip to San Francisco we stayed in Berkeley for two nights with friends.  Berkeley is one of the more interesting towns I have visited and has earned its reputation.  One of the pfotos below is a sign we came across walking back from a breakfast diner.  The sign proudly proclaims the city of Berkeley as a nuclear free zone.  I find it ironic that a place so fueled by the hippie movement in the '70s and environmentally conscious would shun nuclear power; but even more ironic is that the University of California at Berkeley is still one of the few schools left in the United States with a nuclear engineering program.  Below are pictures we snapped walking around the neighborhood and driving through Berkeley's campus.

The diner we ate at had model trains decorating the walls and one running along a track.

I managed to capture a great shot of Mackenzie and Willie laughing during conversation.

See above for my thoughts on this.

The Golden Gate, prominent across the bay, from the rooftop.

Berkeley in the distance (also from apartment rooftop).