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Yesterday I put on my wool pants under my pants and jackets and a scarf around my face and followed Billy to Marina Beach, I felt like getting out my zoom lens and with numb hands took pictures of him surf and birds and things.
Later we drove up to the Santa Cruz redwood forest to pick a surfboard Billy won on Ebay for $99, and what a cool little property that was! There was a girl hanging up laundry outside, light was filtering through the tall redwoods and there were dogs running around barking at us when we drove up, and there were a million weird head sculptures all over the place I wanted to take pictures but wanted to be respectful. Billy thought it was a real commune.
Since it was right down the street from the Mystery Spot, we stopped there to see what all the fuss is about. THere were a million people there! I thought it was this park you get to walk around but you have to be in herded group tours.
on a straight board these people were all 1 inch apart in height BIlly is the tallest...
and when they switched they were all the same height!
It's not just a bumper sticker, although there are optical illusions, and that stupid crooked house
but we couldn't figure it out, I felt heavier in some spots and lighter in others. One girl threw up in the parking lot.
hey aren't buildings supposed to have 90 degree angles. My knee hurt from running from the coyote the other day so it was hard to walk on crooked floors
THen we went to Santa Cruz so Billy could get resin to fix surfboards. Sometimes I love Santa Cruz and sometimes I hate it, yesterday I loved it
It was cold and windy
On our way home we stopped in Moss landing at THe WHole Enchilada for a big hot plate and fresh fish and margaritas. The theme there is mermaids.
I collect the plastic mermaids: I think I have all the colors now
Was super low tide so we walked in the mud flats and watched the birds and fisherman, I found a wishbone of a bird.
the pelicans are in their mating colors right now
Billy of course had to see what his surf spot looked like on our way home, this was where we started the day. IT was still cold but the wind changed directions. I mom taught her boys how to fly a kite and it made me think of The Kite Runner
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also, we talked about taking two weeks off in January to go on a road trip to Humbolt county just because we've never been. And, a week in spring if it's not too hot to go to the Owen's Valley, to see the Booming Dunes, the ancient Heiroglyphs, the Ancient Bristlecone pines, Mono Lake and the desert. Billy went there for school and said I would fall in love with it. He says if he had to ever live away from the ocean, it would be Owen's Valley.
http://www.mysteryspot.com/history.html