Gosh, so much stuff has happened since my update in June.

• Started my sabbatical from work at the end of June, off until mid-October!
• Pride month in SF was a lot of fun
  • Parties/dancing
  • Trans march
  • I got to spend the whole weekend with my GF
  • Rode on the back of my GF’s motorcycle in the pride parade
• Did a bunch of walking around SF - In one week, I walked from my apartment to the water in all three directions
  • Ocean Beach (West)
  • Marina Green (North)
  • Dogpatch (East)
• Rode vespas to Ocean Beach & Pacifica with my GF
• Walked on Fort Funston with my ex and our dog
• Went to Seattle with my GF
  • We took the train! 22h on the Coast Starlight, I’ve never done a long-distance train in the US before, but it was really quite pleasant
  • Went to the aquarium
  • Played pinball in a gay barcade
  • Met up with local friends
  • Got sick :(
  • Visited the Connections Museum
• Said goodbye to SF for a little bit, rode vespas to Christmas Tree Point (too foggy to see anything) and Fort Point (also foggy but prettier)

# Started traveling around Europe on a Eurail Pass

## Brighton

• Brighton Pride
• Walking along the beach
• Getting sunburned :(

## London

• Made some friends
• Kew Gardens
• Lots of museums
• Sooooooo many people

## Berlin

• Got COVID and stayed in my hotel for a week :(
• Met some locals
• Visited some museums

## Amsterdam

• Museums
• Walked around the beautiful city admiring the infrastructure that isn’t just for cars
• Vondelpark

### Redhead Days Festival

I went to this festival on a whim after finding out about it from the Wikipedia page on Red Hair. It was really cute and fun, I was happy that I got the chance to go. A guy from Reuters interviewed me, and the interview got clipped by an Australian news channel!

## Rotterdam

• Met up with Mara Bos
• Went to the Rotterdam Library, where I wrote this very entry

## The rest of the trip

I’m going to be traveling around Europe until the end of September. Reach out to me if you’d like to meet up in Lyon, Geneva, Zurich, Munich, Innsbruck, or Vienna!