"We need to travel. If we don't offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days. Don't let yourself become one of these people. The fear of the unknown and the lure of the comfortable will conspire to keep you from taking the chances the traveler has to take. But if you take them, you will never regret your choice. To be sure, there will be moments of doubt when you stand alone on an empty road in an icy rain, or when you are ill with fever in a rented bed. But as the pains of the moment will come, so too will they fall away. In the end, you will be so much richer, so much stronger, so much clearer, so much happier, and so much better a person that all the risk and hardship will seem like nothing compared to the knowledge you have gained."~Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love
We have had our "dream vacation" and it was all it could have been, and more!
The first week was something Larry has been wanting to do for many years - share some of California with me....his having been and loving it. The second week was something we have both wanted to do, dreamed of doing since even before meeting each other. Hawaii.
We had a 4AM pick up time (ugh!) and we just gave ourselves up to the flow....after all, you can't fight it once you've committed, and we were both exhausted from work and ready for the left-side life style!
We flew United and were very happy with it over all.
The Ford Fusion was rented, we also added on a GPS - our first encounter, and will be going out to buy one this week! What a super invention.
From San Francisco Airport, we drove to Half Moon Bay, hoping to find some quaint little coastal/bay side pub or cafe in which to eat lunch and watch the water.
We ended up at the Green Leaf Market - a whole foods type of store, sitting outside on the sidewalk, watching the parking lot iin the amazing sun. I had the best turkey chili - very spicy - with two little French rolls, Lary had a hot homemade turkey meatloaf sandwich on a wheat bun. And then we set off for a coastal drive.
All along the way there are State (or Federal?) Park beaches, and for one fee you have access to all of them along the way. As it was very misty/foggy it was so reminiscent of Scotland, but by 3 the mist had burned off and the views were spectacular.
Planning at home we'd hoped to make it to Big Sur, but Lar was tiring after the flight and we made it only as far as Pescadero. We picked up some things like bottled water and snacks in a little general store there and headed back to check in to our hotel.
