…for the moment. I will be moving to CA by the end of the month! Please, hold your applause till the end of the post.
Highlights of my trip: walking off the plane and having olscratch there waiting for me… 5 days (and nights!) with him… Muir Woods and Muir Beach and the top of Mt. Tam where you can see the city all around you… (saw the Pacific and redwoods, truly God’s country)… meeting zyzzyva’sbicycle gang/anarcho-messenger friends and having full contact surrey races around Stowe Lake (not Still Lake) in Golden Gate Park… driving over the Golden Gate and looking down, only to see fog, no water… watching the fog move across the highway and through the valleys… meeting the Bay Area Dopers (some of them), if only for about 10 minutes, a wicked boat party on the Bay with oldscratch, Sea Diver, zyzzyva and Chris… going under the Bay and Golden Gate Bridge and looking out the back of the boat and seeing what looked like a field of stars strewn on the water and realizing “this is a city. it’s manmade.” and thinking it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen… (and no I didn’t do E)… afterparty at this circus freak artist commune type thingy, hanging in San Jose with oldscratch and his friend Chris and his 3 insane cats… the smell of bay and eucalypus (parts of CA smell really, really nice)… cable cars, huge scary hills and houses that looked like gingerbread…
Overall, the only bad part was leaving! So the plan for now is this. oldscratch is going to take a bus out here after Christmas, we’re packing all my shit in my car (well as much as will fit) and driving cross-country. In the winter. In my tiny rollerskate car. If we make it without killing each other, we shall live happily ever after in the la la land of San Francisco. I’d throw a Dopefest when I got there, but I don’t have a place to live yet!
I was there just long enough to feel like I belong…
