Dot's I hope you read my plans for your big California tour. Good bye empty nest. Hello California!!
Girls, I apologize for hogging the F.A. topic. Can't help it. Lori just gets my travel juices flowing and I am compelled to type.
Yes Lori, that's the book. I forgot I had posted about it. I had put it away and tried to forget it, but your posts bring it back to my mind. It was my way of using some of my travel journals.
Rocky point was so beautiful and unspoiled. A tourist mecca in the making. Roadside stands with trinkets and colorful dresses hanging on lines blowing in the wind. Three brightly colored hotels on the beach still not completely constructed, but accepting guests, still surrounded with unused building material. Dinner of huge freshly caught shrimp on the roof of a ramshackle restaurant overlooking the ocean crashing on the rocks. Rental Jet skis for riding the waves. Gee, I want to go back.
I liked the redwood forest too. Isn't going from the the huge openness and hot light of the ocean into the cool green enclosure of the giant redwoods wild. Kind of like entering a new world or an air conditioned tent.
I must have missed the Oregon Dunes or else I forgot. Tell us more.
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P.S. How is the running injury? I hope it's getting better. Maybe walking will do for a while. You might try walking with weights on your legs (though most doctors advise against it). I think the extra exertion helps you reach the running high or something. And when you take them off to run, you can leap forever and it's like Flying. Gee, you make me long to run again. I must have been a Jaguar in a previous klife,. Maybe after I'm fully healed from the surgery.

[ May 24, 2005, 09:28 AM: Message edited by: smilinize ]