Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Jul 8, 2004

Thursday Evening

Filed in Santa Cruz 2004

We got in, had drinks, showered, then headed out to explore. We went down to the Boardwalk, a required pilgrimage - it’s just so nice to walk up and down, watching people being turned inside out by the rides, enjoying the colours in the shops and the cotton candy and the giant corn dog that we got a lady from Cambridge to take a picture of.

On the way back up the boardwalk we sat at some restaurant and had a beer. It has been many years since I had a beer at an outdoors restaurant, and when the bill came I remembered why.

At least the beer anaesthetized my hurting feet, allowing me to walk to the other end of the wharf, which was a first for me. Lots of people fishing, gewgaws for sale alongside, homeless people, and the sound of sealions honking underneath. At the end you can look down holes to barnacle-encrusted beams, but this time we didn’t see any of the critters.

We got fish and chips at a very slow-moving hole in the wall place and they were delicious. One portion between us both would have been enough. We were stuffed!

Finally we walked home, very slowly in my case. Had a quiet evening doing nothing in particular.