Hola, Civilization! (and why we haven't been updating this thing)

Hello, all! After 6 weeks on the trail, we needed a week off (a sabbath week?). Plus there were some family vacations and brother Luke's baseball games we wanted to go see.
Somehow we got a ride from tiny Florence Lake to Concord and took BART to San Francisco. We ran from the station to get our first Mission Burrito in a long time (Jon was so excited he ordered in Espanol) and then to drop in unexpected at Sojourners (our church community where we've lived the past year). Then it was off to Ukiah and then off to camping (yes, camping) with the Otto family.
Today we are in San Francisco and Steven Braney is taking us to Tuolumne Meadows, about 80 miles north of where we left off (we'll have to do that section some other time).

More pictures are definitely to come, but perhaps (perhaps) not for another month. We re-hired Dan, but unfortuneately, due to some technical error and sketchiness in the United States Postal Service, we are unable to send any more memory cards in the mail (our first two got stolen en route... at least it happened after our pictures had already been transferred). We appreciate all your interest in our hike and patience with the blog. For those of you have anything negative to say about the lack of blog update, we'll be happy to meet you out on the trail and hand over our memory cards. More to come... (for those who are curious about our plans, we are hoping to make it to the California/Oregon border and then divine the Spirit's plan for us after that, although the Spirit has previously told us that he plans for us to go to IvaJo's cousin's wedding on Sep. 9 and then the Matt/Krista wedding the next weekend, so we're pretty sure Canada won't be happening by Sep. 9) Stay tuned!