Pretty eye-candy designed to get you to read the rest of the blog posting.

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(For appropriate some mood music, scroll down to the bottom of the page and start the video entitled “Carry On”, then scroll back up and read. Go ahead. I’ll wait. )

Point Reyes

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Kyra and I decided to get out of the city for a few nights during spring break, but found ourselves deadlocked on where to go due to our hard to nail-down schedules. We decided last week to give it a go, and decided to spend a night with friends in Point Reyes. They recommended that we check out the bottle sculpture on the way out of town. It was made out of plastic bottles the artist found on daily walks down to the coast for a year. I really, really want to walk over that huge hill in the background.

Mendocino Road-Trip

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(I asked Kyra if I could go walk over that big hill and have her meet me on the other side a few hours later. She said no.)

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Graffiti artists get bored in the middle of nowhere, and take whatever canvasses they can find.

In the woods

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We stopped at a pull-off in the woods where Kyra used to roam around with her mother as a toddler. The rain and mud were beautiful to me that afternoon.

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Kyra snapped this gorgeous shot of this purple flower and the clover below it with my 5d while I frolicked around in the woods.

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She also managed to snap-off a candid photo of me looking sleepy while frolicking in the woods.

Mendocino

We stayed at the Sweetwater Inn and Spa in Mendocino, CA

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The water tower was the room where we slept. It was small but cute, and warm, with a lot of privacy, just above the public and private hot tubs.

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This was our private hot tub, and also where we ate breakfast both mornings. We dined on decadent breakfasts of soft cheeses with sesame crackers, fresh bread, walnuts, blueberries, tangerines, tea, and juice while soaking in a hot tub with the rising hot sun shining on my face. This is what I want to be doing when I die.

Massages lead to hiking!

I tried to embed the strava page to my hike, but couldn’t because Posterous' markdown processing still doesn’t allow HTML to be embedded even if you close the markdown tag. Lame. So click on it here if you’re interested in details about this hike: http://app.strava.com/hikes/363052

On our second day Kyra wanted to have a lazy day of massages and studying. Not being interested in lazy days or massages (and not in the mood to study) , I opted to take a walk from downtown to Russian Gulch State Park.

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I walked north from Mendocino village until I found a bridge that had a trail under it. I hopped a fence and slid down a trail some others had clearly slid down before, and away I went.

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The trails were in decent shape and the scenery was gorgeous.

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I walked a few miles in on the main trail until I came upon the waterfall, and a couple of nice stoners from Santa Rosa.

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That’s them in the background, you can see them smoking a bowl in the largest size photo :)

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(That’s the last time I’ll ever see those glasses. Immediately afterwards I put them in my pocket and jogged two or three miles, and they worked their way through a hole in my pocket)

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After the waterfall I took the longer section of the loop back, jogging a couple of miles along the way with hopes of getting back to the Inn before Kyra got worried. (I failed and she came searching for me, and picked me up just about ½ mile out of town.).

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When you cross back under the bridge leaving Russian Gulch State Park, there’s a series of trails which take you into the Mendocino Headlands, and I definitely recommend them if you’re into the whole scenic seashore landscape thing. I am.

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Kelp!

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Kyra wanted to stop and get some parting shots of Mendocino on the way home.

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Obligatory Thelma & Louise shot.

Come Carry On – Common Rider

Big city miles stretching out into the terminal horizon Don’t you know we had to get away? It was two kids with a beat up Nova, and a dream and a two a.m. song

It was two kids with a beat up Nova singing come carry on

Come carry on ‘till the night’s all gone come carry on come right where we belong

The impossible girl lit a cigarette and said “I don’t give a damn if we never come home” and I turned to her in the old starlight and a tender amazement swallowed up the night We could walk along be forever strong drive into the night, and the right, and the wrong

It was two kids with a beat up Nova, and a dream, and a two A.M. song
It was two kids, with a beat up Nova singing, come carry on

sing it

Come carry on ‘till the night’s all gone come carry on come right where we belong

There ain’t no dream like the one that’s real Ashby to Eighty Eighty to the Bridge Bridge down to One Route One carry on We ate the night up and we shot the big coast ‘cause the shoreline makes a heart open like a rose

She found a song on the radio and it wiped all the blood off my halo It was two kids, whose heart were their own Toughest the world has ever known