Yosemite over Labor Day weekend with my friend Chris, all by bus: the Mist Trail up Vernal Fall, Glacier Point and the giant sequoias, a day up on Tioga Road at the bluest lake I've ever seen, and a lot about glaciers, fire and trees.

A weekend in California's capital: walking the city in 89-degree sun, the State Railroad Museum, a Latin Mass, and a day judging student projects at HackDavis, UC Davis's hackathon.

My first work trip out of New York: four days in Los Angeles with my team in March 2025, an afternoon on the clean sands of Manhattan Beach, and a team dinner where I tried oysters and crab cakes for the first time.

A quick work trip to San Francisco in October 2024, in the middle of my first month in the US, for the E2B hackathon with two colleagues. I don't remember much of it, but my photos do: a rooftop over the bay, my first Waymo, Coit Tower, Pier 39 and a Twin Peaks sunset.