Just a short little one today before we go back to ND! This is the small, not-quite ghost town of McCabe, where they have a cute little school they've been keeping up.


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Dooley is a ghost town where the only things left are the church and the headstone. There is also a farm/ranch there that might be inhabited.


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This is it folks, the last entry about my trip to California in October! I'm pretty good at dragging stuff out! ;)


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Before I get back to the pretty, a short update: Greg and I got away from the children last night and got to see Avatar! Yay! =D I really liked it (though I'm not sure it was OMGBESTMOVIEEVERMADE!!!) I like that every character in it was likable, something that is soo important in any movie. Even the bad guys. It was like, the opposite of the Blair ( Read more... )

So after a night of listening to the wind outside and sitting by the gas fireplace and going to the bathroom with tealights in our totally dark hotel room (power never did come back on ever), we got up early so we could go back to Fort Ord before it was time to catch the plane back home. It was a dreary, wet day. But perfect for taking photos of ( Read more... )

First let me begin by telling you about The Storm. This is probably how they refer to it there in the Monterey Bay area. The biggest, baddest storm in a decade, they said! At least half the town of Monterey was without power for over a day, including our hotel that never did regain power the whole time we stayed there! There was rain! There was ( Read more... )

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So after we drove the 17-mile drive with the old people, we went back to the house in Pacific Grove and LEAH came over!!! She drove up from LA to see us! And she was itching for a little taste of old times, and the abandoned house on the corner was just the thing for that!


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On Sunday we did the 17 Mile Drive (after starting once and our rental van dying and having to go back and wait for a new one).


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