Month: December 2016

Wow, the last week of the year is here already. When I think about trying to put the whole year into a post, my head kind of explodes. As Charles Dickens wrote so long ago: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. So I’ll just stick to the last week in this post, that much I can handle. I did move from Sunset State Beach (and the all-night irrigation noise) to New Brighton a day early and was rewarded with this lovely sunset over Capitola. I will never not love this place, this view from…

Yesterday was the last day of fall, today the first of the winter season. Seems like a good idea to show the last autumn sunset right about now. I spent most of the week at New Brighton State Beach, enjoying mostly daily walks down the long stretch of sand, and one evening, at low tide, walking along the cliffs to Capitola. It is a wondrous thing to walk below those towering structures and realized that a few epochs ago, they were 60 feet underwater. The seasons change, the planets change, and so life goes. Sometimes that life is pretty unexpected,…

Been a quiet week as far as actual travel and trailer stuff goes, because the focus has been on friends and catching up with them, along with a lot of beach walking, and getting Christmas presents mailed to the great-nieces. Some people might think I am here for the month of December for the holidays, but to be honest, I booked this month in Santa Cruz so that I would not miss the 11th birthday of one very special young man. I’ve been to every single birthday of his, and this one was as joyous as all the rest, celebrating…