I planned, I researched and I searched the net. Then I went and it was ten times better than I thought it would have. I spent two weeks moving up and down the coastal highway. The sights were to be loved and remembered, the videos to always look at, new details to find with each viewing. I met a man in Jenna who lived in Sacramento who hadn't been to the coast since he was a boy. We were about the same age and I thought of all the places I had been since I began to drive and I thought what could have anchored someone in one spot for so long must have been very absorbing and consuming. The first place on the schedule was St. Helena and that was a hard place to find from Sacramento without any local maps and ended up driving in the wrong direction the first two or three hours and then found the direction and still ended up driving over the mountains on 128 to 29 and that was an experience. The next day I drove over the mountains again, this time to Glen Ellen where Jack London State Park was. That was another headache finding even with detailed driving directions. On the way back I decided to stay on the main highway and found out I should have taken the mountain road back and cut my travel time to a third. After that my next destination was Clearlake. That was the most winding road of the whole trip from Calistoga to Clearlake and probably the biggest elevation change too. I looked at property in Clearlake and all around it. I blew into town late on the first day I was there most of the next and I toured a couple of houses and tracked down several that were in the MLS listings. I was definitely not impressed with the character of the old commence center except for one restaurant that looked like it had something happening.
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Posted 12-04-2010 at 11:06 PM by Profiler (California dreaming, part 1)
Decided to go to Santa Rosa that evening and down to San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge the next day. After a day in that great place I drove across the Oakland Bay Bridge to the city of Oakland. I drove the length of San Pablo Blvd thru Berkeley which had a certain urban charm and was my favorite in the area. Across the Bay Bridge I marveled the engineering of it. When I got to the other side it was like a clone of where I live. I'm starting to call it Corp. Modern homogeneity and maybe...
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Posted 09-18-2010 at 02:08 PM by Profiler (California dreaming, part 1)
After I headed to the cost and stayed in Willits overnight on the way and looked at a house there that was a nightmare because it had slippage of the foundation, the lot was so steep. The town on the other hand was a charmer and I thought they had done a wonderful job of planning and maintaining the commercial areas and would have felt at home living there. Found a great sub/pizza restaurant on a later visit there. Didn't ride the train but the drive through the forest to Ft. Bragg made me love...
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Posted 09-06-2010 at 10:59 AM by Profiler (California dreaming, part 1)
Most of the neighborhoods I drove through were in extremely poor condition. There didn't seem to be any type of civil code enforcement from the appearance of the homes and they had a total lack of any spirit at all. There were a few roses in the wilderness but they definitely were the minority. Everyone that worked there I spoke to didn't live in town and hadn't been there very long. I could see that the place reminded me of the isolated coal towns in Kentucky when I was there. The visual difference...
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Posted 09-05-2010 at 05:17 PM by Profiler (California dreaming, part 1)
I planned, I researched and I searched the net. Then I went and it was ten times better than I thought it would have. I spent two weeks moving up and down the coastal highway. The sights were to be loved and remembered, the videos to always look at, new details to find with each viewing. I met a man in Jenna who lived in Sacramento who hadn't been to the coast since he was a boy. We were about the same age and I thought of all the places I had been since I began to drive and I thought what could...
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Posted 08-01-2010 at 07:15 PM by Profiler (California dreaming, part 1)
The Effervescent Theory
My vision of how the universe exists is based on my observations of physics without any mathematical calculations involved because it is based on what already exists in fact.
The fact that the laws of physics are the same whether it is an atom or a universe are exactly the same, which you will soon come to understand according to my theory, is far larger than you may have imagined in the past. What most people consider the universe as they understand...
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