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That felt like we were going to a wedding. Vu, Lean, Laurel and myself in the 1996 Honda Accord. A grey station wagon with manual transmission. Small scratches on the bumper but by now I had mastered the parallel parking. In the rain. Up the hill. We passed through Santa Cruz and stop to take photos. We saw the rock in the ocean. The windows had to be cleaned manually with a sprayer because the wipers still didn't work. Around the Big Sur I let Laurel drive on the curvy roads of the Pacific Highway. The rocks, the ocean, the breeze. I was wearing my Berkeley hoodie, Vu smiled in the camera and sang a Vietnamese song. Laurel was playing guitar. I think she did wear a flower in her hair. Photos of Lean in wearing a hat at the toy shop. Laurel posing at the gas station. Stopped by Nepente and sat on the bench overlooking the Big Sur. Silence of the smooth ocean underneath us. We kept driving. When we got all the way to San Luis Obispo. We stopped by Vons. I sat down with a can of pears and reminisced my great grandmother's garden and tree.