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

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 started clomping their shellfish catch on the rock they carry with them to open the goodies.

They were quite far away and we only had a glimpse, but see them we did, my first ever otters. There were also many sealions on the rocks, including the huge one which was using the small rock as a pivot point to get comfortable, sort of like a sealion see-saw.

Bluefinch was fascinated by the little squirrels that were playing on the beach; she had never seen any in Australia. This species had no trouble coming right up to us to look at the strange human critters. Now we know why the “do not feed the squirrels” signs are there. ;-)

In time, we headed back to Monterey, with a detour here and there. I got to see a couple of landmarks, and Bluefinch got to see a couple of deer, and we all got to play in the Dennis the Menace playground. I’ll always have fond memories of three women going “whoo-whoo” through the giant pipes…

Lios knew a lot about the area as he grew up here and he remembered what all the buildings used to be or who lived there and what he used to do. It was very cool.

We had dinner at Fresh Choice, and then we had to say farewelly to Bluefinch and her friend who needed to make it back to Atascadero, and I had to go home. I borrowed a sweater which made the return significantly more comfortable for me, and it went exceedingly fast.

I spent more time in the evening reading, but was very tired and was not late to bed.

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