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.
Clearlake
Posted 06-30-2010 at 04:49 PM by Profiler
I'm definately making progress. I been using Google to veiw likley prospects. Its amazing what its capable of, you can view from the front and you can go to the street behind the place if there is a clear view and look at it from the back. That section on the east side of 53? That place looks anarchyville. CBS homes, frame, mobile, and vacant lots all mixed together. Some of the lots had material stacked up like some outdoor hoarders paradise. There were a few cars in yards with the hoods up and nobody working on them like they had just lost interest and went back inside and forgot about them. I had a dream about a month ago I told my wife about and I swear I was looking at it in reality on my computer. If I get there and find that mexican bodega and cafateria and the guy working on his classic car around the corner with the property across the street with a herd of young mammouths fenced in then I'll know I'm psychic. I'll let someone out there interperet that one. I definately want to be there as soon as I can make it, because of what I saw it makes me feel like its my destiny now. It sounds crazy but one thing I've learned in this short life(cosmicly)is that if you haven't a dream then you don't have hope of succeding because you'll find a way around adversity if you desire it enough or die trying. Thats where we all end up anyway so it doesn't make any difference afterwards except to the ones left behind and maybe they'll be inspired by what you did and strive to reach their own goals. This universe we live in is so big that we are closer to a single cell life form than we are to it relativly speaking and that is how we start out ourselves.
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