25th September 2004 On the way home from Monterey, or rather from base camp in Santa Cruz, Arnie began to lose power and it felt as though no power were coming to the bike. I put it down to being in the wrong gear, but after he started backfiring every few seconds, sometimes so loudly [...]

I’m tired. I can’t believe how much snarfage I now have to enter, assuming markeroni.com ever comes up again.

Sunday 12th Well, it’s my last evening here. Sort of sad, I’ve been very comfortable. On the one hand, it’s nice to be heading for my own cats, computer, husband, and life: on the other, as always, a shame to be leaving behind people you never know when you’ll see again. We watched a couple [...]

September 11 It rained like mad last night, and the power was out this morning. I also woke up at seven, and thus the morning seemed very long. Apparently some critter ran into the lines and expired both itself and the electrickery. :: sigh :: I can’t remember if I mentioned that I had the [...]

10th September After such a lot of snarfing and travelling, we had a leisurely and long morning. I got a bunch of stuff done online by borrowing LV’s computer (mine only gives 10 hours of free dialup a month) and chatted and just generally had a quiet time, which was pretty much needed. Later we [...]

9th September Wolf Haven In time we made our way to Wolf Haven, a sanctuary for wolves. Primarily these are wolves which were either in zoos which lost their funding, or were kept as pets by people who should know better. There are 42 wolves there now, and they’re almost full. S stayed in the [...]

9th September Had a good night’s sleep, with kittage wandering in and out at various times. Got up, did email etc. and we eventually headed up to Olympia farmer’s market. We had lunch first; they have a row of little food places and I got a curry which was tasty. Then I wandered around with [...]

8th September, continued On the way home from the dispute place, we stopped at an artesian well. It goes very deep and taps into free, delicious fresh water direct from the source. People come and fill up their bottles; the water pushes itself up and doesn’t need to be pumped. That was pretty nifty. At [...]