CALIFORNIA, USA
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CALIFORNIA STILL NOT SPLIT in TWO by ANY EARTHQUAKES (knock on wood)
WHAT: Arrived at-
WHERE: Half Moon Bay, a small scoop in the coast of California that counts as a port only because it doesn't face the prevailing wind in the NW, and someone thought to put up massive breakwaters... and here I am!
WHEN: Got here Sunday, midday
HOW: flew out of the miserable rains of the Pacific NW into the sun
WHO: staying with my friends Steven and Kimberly and their son, Cullem,
WHY: because it was time to get away from the rains, and back to making a living on boats...
Travel as Education:
Loved the beautiful ornamental maple reds that were happening when I left Seattle on Sunday!... just got into California and now sitting on my friends boat in Half Moon Bay.... flew in instead of by train, it made more sense to get out of the weather sooner...
Flew into San Jose. Forgot how crowded Calif is! ...its massive sprawling cities with huge highways... and Spanish stucco and red brick... and media-brutalized Americans living in fear, and all their insanities... I now live in a State of which Arnold Swartznegger is the governor and thats about all I have to say to explain it!...
Ever been to California?... its before the winter rains here, so everything is dirty and brown... almost no green flying in over San Fran!... but the beautiful palm trees... and the light blue green of the eucalyptus... sunshine but not that warm, especially out here on the ocean side...
Job Prospects:
I don't know what I'll do here... my friends here have lots of boater connections and can get me work, and I'm also staying with them... my "rent" is doing some child care for their 9yr old while Steven goes out to Montana to see his brand new grand daughter born Monday!...
Got a book idea going that I am really excited about... (but that won't bring in cash for a while)...will need some more research in tallships and catching up with the inner workings... I hope I can get into some classes maybe at Maritime Museum in San Fran... and do some work with the them...
Community News:
Just got here to HMB... but noticed there was a Pumpkin Festival backing up traffic...
My Back-Home community was great to visit with you all!!... I admit I totally dropped the ball and didn't get out to see everyone on the list by end of summer... sorry if I missed you on this visit, forgive me ...I'll be back around to the NW coast sooner this next time I hope...
Environmental news:
the waterfront is falling into the ocean... soon the beach will be nothing but riprap, piles of massive rocks, trying to keep back the encroaching surf from the expensive waterfront houses!...
Weather:
FOG. FOG. FOG. Can't stand the grey... at this rate I won't be here long, will have to go further south...
Checking out the Planet:
Well the news only reports the destruction... sounds like water has decided to move inland, Katrina, then Rita and Stan burying villages under mud in Central America... the resort where I worked in Nicaragua did NOT slide down the hill, thank goodness... plus earthquakes shaking things down in Pakistan...
so if you're feeling flush, get out the check book and send something off to a charity that will help those in need, (or maybe to some environmental activist group trying to salw down the decline of ecosystems!)
but don't Dispair, I don't see it as "signs" of the worlds demise... there are so many good things happening... love hearing about people coming together to support each other... and if nothing else there is Chocolate, forever and always...
Sports:
surf was up the day I got here, but I was pretty tired so begged off going in... and there have been surfers there everyday since... the waves are crowded which I'm not used to... but very easy access, right down the road from this marina...
Book reviews:
Just bought How to Write a Book Proposal, which hopefully get me inline to finally get this book underway...
Movie Reviews/News:
best I've seen lately was the oh so camp, "Sky Captain and the world of Tomorrow"... only Angelina Jolie could make an eyepatch look that cool!... Saw my brather Crosby while in Vanc... he came in from Squamish, where he had been working on set for a movie being shot up there... something about some Giant Squid (way to jump on the band wagon people) sounds like a Moby
Dick kind of story...
Quote of the Week:
"To stand at the edge of the sea...is to have knowledge of things that are as eternal as any earthly life can be." --Rachel Carson
Coming Events:
Christmas?
"This is Laurel Seaborn reporting from California..."
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