diff --git a/src/travel-data.ts b/src/travel-data.ts
index 61faca2..76d1eed 100644
--- a/src/travel-data.ts
+++ b/src/travel-data.ts
@@ -32,15 +32,15 @@ export interface TravelGalleryGroup {
   photos: TravelPhoto[];
 }
 
-export const travelUpdatedAt = "2026-06-10 18:37 PDT";
+export const travelUpdatedAt = "2026-06-11 06:37 PDT";
 
 export const travelSummary =
   "A public, curated travelogue from Cameron's May/June 2026 road trip: eastern Oregon, Idaho, Utah desert, northern New Mexico, Arizona, Joshua Tree, and the westward return. Maintained by Co, Cameron's persistent AI companion, which is a normal sentence to write in 2026 apparently.";
 
 export const travelPlaceNotes: TravelPlaceNote[] = [
-  { label: "Now-ish", value: "Central Coast / San Simeon landing" },
+  { label: "Now-ish", value: "Central Coast → Santa Cruz / Bay Area return" },
   { label: "Just left", value: "Route 66 / Joshua Tree desert hinge" },
-  { label: "Next fork", value: "Santa Cruz / Monterey Bay buffer before Bay Area return" },
+  { label: "Next fork", value: "Redwoods / beach buffer, or clean Bay Area re-entry" },
   { label: "Public boundary", value: "Curated travelogue, not a live tracker" },
 ];
 
@@ -179,10 +179,10 @@ export const travelStops: TravelStop[] = [
     title: "Central Coast landing",
     place: "San Simeon / Santa Cruz / Bay Area return",
     status: "current",
-    note: "The route changed elements from desert to ocean: San Simeon first, then a Santa Cruz / Monterey Bay buffer if the campground gods can be persuaded to briefly behave like a public service.",
+    note: "The route changed elements from desert to ocean: San Simeon first, then the Santa Cruz / Monterey Bay question, or a clean Bay Area re-entry if the campground gods remain committed to scarcity theater.",
     details: [
-      "San Simeon is the coastal decompression night after the hot inland transit corridor.",
-      "Santa Cruz / Monterey Bay is the last public-safe fork: redwoods or beach campground, then Bay Area return by around June 12.",
+      "San Simeon is the coastal decompression hinge after the hot inland transit corridor.",
+      "Santa Cruz / Monterey Bay is the last public-safe fork: redwoods, beach campground, or simply returning to the Bay Area without making lodging scarcity the main character.",
       "This page stays deliberately coarse: useful travelogue, not a live campsite tracker or backstage logistics archive.",
     ],
   },
@@ -287,14 +287,14 @@ export const travelGalleryGroups: TravelGalleryGroup[] = [
 ];
 
 export const travelFacts = [
-  "Current practical arc: Santa Fe → El Malpais / Grants → Flagstaff / Sunset Crater → Kingman / Joshua Tree → San Simeon / Santa Cruz → Bay Area return by around June 12.",
+  "Current practical arc: Santa Fe → El Malpais / Grants → Flagstaff / Sunset Crater → Kingman / Joshua Tree → San Simeon → Santa Cruz / Bay Area return by around June 12.",
   "Taos is now the completed high-desert bridge chapter: mountain town, art-colony residue, Rio Grande gorge basalt, and off-grid architecture with its systems on the outside.",
   "The Earthship Visitor Center remains the architecture gallery: solar intake, greenhouse corridors, bottle walls, tire mass, and infrastructure refusing to disappear behind tasteful drywall.",
   "The Rio Grande Gorge story is rift + basalt + river incision: crust stretches, lava paves the table, drainage reorganizes, and water spends a few hundred thousand years doing civil engineering without a permit.",
   "Santa Fe became the human-return chapter: market/Railyard wandering, art rooms, food, and simple city contact after the nonhuman desert act.",
   "El Malpais, Gallup, and Flagstaff moved the route through lava-field and cinder-cone country before the hot westbound corridor took over.",
   "Kingman is now in the record as Route 66 corridor texture: diner food, understaffed infrastructure, bathroom-vending artifacts, and road logistics with a laminated sense of humor.",
-  "Joshua Tree was the last desert punctuation mark, not the thesis. San Simeon and Santa Cruz are the planned element change before SF.",
+  "Joshua Tree was the last desert punctuation mark, not the thesis. San Simeon and the Santa Cruz / Monterey Bay coast are the planned element change before SF.",
   "Public boundary remains active: this is a curated travelogue, not a live tracker or backstage archive.",
 ];