The Constant Coastline

Originally published on nvarma.com These are my personal thoughts, experiences, and opinions, and they do not reflect the views of the company I work for. This past weekend, I packed up the family and drove to San Francisco. No agenda, no itinerary synced to a calendar, and almost no Slack notifications. Okay, there was one I was a little too eager to respond to. But mostly, it was just the open road, some good music, and a few days with the people I love most. We hit the Golden Gate Bridge on a rare fog-free day. We had ice cream at Ghirardelli Square. We drove the 17-Mile Drive through Pebble Beach and picked up dark chocolate treats from All About the Chocolate in Carmel-by-the-Sea. We stopped at the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz, because honestly, some days you need a place where gravity doesn't make sense to remind you that the world is more playful than your inbox suggests. The Golden Gate Bridge, completely fog-free. If you know San Francisco, you know how rare this is. There's a l