Back to School: Summer Is Almost Over (Thank Goodness)
What a summer it has been. The weather has been extreme this year―record rain, record heat, record flooding and record hot air in Washington, with no end in sight.
We've been lucky this year in Northern California with the heat so far (though it's maybe not so good for the farmers) and it certainly has made for an enjoyable summer. But it's August and time to start thinking about going back to school. When I was a kid getting ready to go back to school I got a couple of new pencils, maybe a new binder, and we covered our books with paper bags. Things have certainly changed.
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Carolyn Sheaff: Traveling the World
Many people wait until they retire to take the trip of a lifetime. Yet Carolyn Sheaff was able to spend her working years travelling to places most people only dream of visiting. As director of the BEAR TREKS Travel Program, California Alumni Association, Carolyn was responsible for developing and administering educational travel programs for alumni and friends of the University of California, Berkeley.
Carolyn's work often took her abroad, and over the years she has visited more than 100 countries, often serving as a tour facilitator. "I did get to travel to places I never would have visited otherwise," she says. Some of the most memorable destinations included Antarctica, with its fascinating wildlife, and Indonesia, with its unique culture, as well as hiking in the Swiss Alps and the Italian Dolomites. One trip even took her to the former Soviet Union for three weeks, where the tour group rode the Trans-Siberian Railway across a portion of central Asia.
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