I just transcribed the last of the phone posts, so that’s done now. I might do a photograph post some other time.

Hubby slept long and hard, so I wandered down to Kinko’s and got online, where I found out that I had miraculously received ten new Markeroons in my absence, which made me happy and excited to be going home instead of depressed. Most of the day was just spent in tidying up and putting things [...]

Saturday was a lazy day, in which I finished several hundred pages of “The Mists of Avalon”. It seems to ripen with age and get better. I wandered down to the boardwalk and had a hot dog, and looked at people, but didn’t do much else. I waited for my husband to show, which he [...]

Another early morning, and I was ready to depart two hours before I really needed to set out. I left just before nine and there was no traffic – the rush hour must be somewhere else in Santa Cruz! It was foggier than yesterday – not so that I couldn’t see, but enough that I [...]

We went up the coast to Pacific Grove, which I found very pretty (but undoubtedly extortionate). We looked for the critters in various “known spots”, along with a lot of people doing the same. In the second place, we found one or two – dinstinguishable from clumps of kale when they turned upside down and [...]

Woke up with a jolt at 5:30 – couldn’t get back to sleep, too much sunlight through the window. Sorted out a blocked toilet, yay for my hosts’ foresight, I found a plunger in the closet under the sink, and away go troubles down the drain. I had visions of having to lug a plunger [...]

I discovered that all I need to do to get my creative writing juices flowing was to be absent from my home computer. At home, I have DSL and constant access to all the internet I need (except for certain commercial sites). There is always one more snarf that needs entering or one more program [...]

The story continues I wrote the journal longhand for the rest of the trip… Got my pictures downloaded today. There are many pictures of signs, but also some neat ones of old buildings and lucious greenery. It will take me a few days to sort everything out and rename it.

… I’ve been home for a couple of hours, but the trip isn’t over yet: I’m expecting Lios and LV in a little while. I’ve made my release notes, am about to take a shower, and laundry is washing. I have about 140 photos to do something with, and nine Markeroons to look after. ;-)