High Ground

Care and Jon went to Buena Vista, CO for the annual High Ground un-conference at Mike and Kathy McCoy's. Randy and Lisa went with us to participate in the conference. On Saturday afternoon we hiked the old railroad grade from McCoys down into town. It is supposed to be a 6 mile hike but we took the wrong trail and it ended up being 8 1/2 miles. Jon's knees did fine but his feet hurt like crazy.

Tesla Factory Tour

Care and Jon took a tour of the Tesla Factory in Fremont, CA. We were joined by Jon's Autodesk colleagues Erin and Scott. It was cool to see a company with such purpose - to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy - and how they are changing the way cars are made. It was also cool seeing cars manufactured in the U.S. - in a high cost state like California, no less. They don't allow photos inside so we only have outside photos and photos from the showroom of a nice red Tesla model S. You can read Scott Sheppard's blog post about our tour (not)!

Ideas Driving Change: Future of Learning

Jon's team put on a syposium/workshop in the Autodesk Gallery on the Future of Learning. Mickey facilitated, Randy organized and we had a world-class set of participants, including brief interludes by Andrew (Autodesk CEO) and Mayor Libby Schaff of Oakland.

Tesla

Jon traded in his 2013 Audi TT Roadster for a new 2018 Tesla Model S 100D.

Sea Ranch

The last weekend in July, we went to The Cove at Sea Ranch. It was smoky all over the north bay but not on the coast. We had a nice, sunny weekend.