We overslept our planned leaving time.<\/p>\n
But it is a holiday, fr goodness sake!<\/p>\n
Groggy, but refreshed with caffeine, each through our preferred modality, and some fruit for breakfast, Jan & I turned off of Highway 1 to 17 and crossed the mountains to San Jose and on to our featured pass through for the day, the legendary Berkeley.<\/p>\n
We parked on Telegraph Avenue (thanks to it being the 4th of July and the light traffic), and spent a half an hour at Moe\u2019s<\/a>. I\u2019d worked there briefly in the eighties and to this day consider it the greatest bookstore of my personal experience. At least for the area of my primary interest. It and Black Oak, another Berkeley store, are the only bookshops I\u2019ve ever encountered with a substantial used selection of general and scholarly books on Buddhism<\/a>. If I wander into a used bookstore I fully expect to find no book I am unfamiliar with and rarely one I wish to own that I don\u2019t already possess. Never so at Moe\u2019s. I carried a large pile to the cashier where they shipped my treasures home.<\/p>\n We walked down Telegraph Avenue<\/p>\n