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10 December 2007

California Dreamin' [More:]On such a winter's day. Sometimes I miss getting up, pouring some coffee, and walking down and checking the surf. When I lived, there, I HATED this song, but now, in winter. I get it.

I get it.
Weldell- Is that lake in Atascadero? I rented a sailboat on some lake there once.

Also, my friend who now lived in Kona lived in Cayucos for a time, and they used to talk about the "Cayucos Circle," a zone of more sunny weather.

It IS a nice area.

(I have also surfed at Castles, a spot where, as you bob up and down on incoming swells, the castle comes in and out of view.)

(Oh, and I DO have a couch for YOU to crash on.)
posted by danf 10 December | 12:23
danf, I just drove from Santa Cruz to Ventura and back, as I do whenever I visit family. The winter palette is in full swing. The clearest of light is illuminating goldenrod, fawn, black and russet colors under a comic sky blue.

This is the guy, right here. Though this, is more of an early fall afternoon palette.≡ Click to see image ≡Eyvind Earle.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 10 December | 12:48
I just drove from Santa Cruz to Ventura and back


Did you take 1, or hop over to 101?

(I'd bet that Wendell would let YOU crash at his house. . .*sniff*)
posted by danf 10 December | 13:20
8'(

I miss my home state.
posted by halonine 10 December | 13:28
danf, we do this trip often, and take the 101 from Salinas down. We also camp in Big Sur plenty, but driving through it, especially at night, is too harrowing.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 10 December | 16:33
Plus, the best Mexican restaurant that I have ever been at is across from the Greyhound station in Salinas.

Or so it seemed at the time. Food tastes better when you are stoned, and I rarely did distance driving unstoned. . .but still. . .good place. And you'd almost expect to see the Joads pull in and sit down (if they had any money).
posted by danf 10 December | 17:10
Hey, I've been to all those places in the cam links! Not often enough tho'. It's been 12 1/2 years since I last visited California. It's funny how far life has taken me from my home state.
posted by deborah 10 December | 17:36
danf, I have a list up here *taps temple* of the best Mexican places all up and down the state. Casa Manana in Santa Maria is probably still the top, for me.

and I just FPPed Eyvind Earle.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 10 December | 17:37
ugh. one of those days... || The Effects of Drugs on Wood Spiders

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