The Peninsula

With some much appreciated help, we devoted most of the weekend to moving T's furniture and other belongings from her long-time home in the East Bay to our temporary home on the Peninsula. We will be leasing a quaint townhome on the San Mateo-Hillsborough border just a few miles down from the Crystal Springs reservoir and hiking trail (link here). The house is located on bucolic Crystal Springs Road which meanders and winds through several miles of scenic hillside, lined with creeks and leafy oaks. And along the way, you can gawk at the multi-million dollar Hillsborough estates nestled high above the roadway. No surprise that the road is popular with cyclists (and real estate agents) which you see more frequently than cars. We are looking forward to regular picnics at the reservoir and the occasional bike ride down the lake trail to Menlo Park and Palo Alto. But the real beauty of the location is that it is also a short walk (the other direction) to downtown San Mateo and to my favorite gourmet market cum culinary school, Draegers (link here). Their celebrity chef demonstrations are a must. As for the move, T should be settled in fairly shortly; and I will be joining her from nearby Burlingame after our wedding in October. Our house-warming party should be in mid-November so be on the look out for another invite.