Crook
Trip Start
Mar 20, 2010
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Trip End
Sep 14, 2010
Eureka, California
Sunday, September 12, 2010
This past weekend really took the last of it out of me. Driving for an average of 9 hours a day is a really tiring experience and though you feel so relieved to get out of the black and white box at the end of the day, all you want to do is be stationary again but in the horizontal position.
The drive to Eureka was beautiful. Once I left Fresno, I made a stop in San Jose to pick up my Dad who spent 2 nights with his girlfriend while I was with my ex. We had lunch together in a cool village there which was the American equivalent to the town I lived in in Mexico but a lot cleaner and flashier. Then we took off to San Francisco just to drive straight through the town and made a quick stop at the tourist view point of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and just the general beauty that is SF. We went full-monty cliche and listened to "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" on the way in and out of the city. Music has always been a constant to my father and I's relationship.
We had calculated our drive to be about 7 hours but we spent at least 10 in the car as we drove up the coast which is relentlessly windy. Unfortunately, it was a really foggy and overcast day so we couldn't see much. We stopped a couple times just to stand at the bottom of a some immensely huge trees and look up (it's eerie but nooothing like them windmills) and for some reason wasted a bunch of time at the entrance of "The Trees of Mystery" which in my eyes was just a tourist trap that isn't worth the money if you're spending the day driving through the same trees and are from a city that is placed in a forest.
After San Fran, we stopped in Bodega Bay where Alfred Hitchcock's film, "The Birds" was partially filmed. We checked out the old school house and had dinner at "The Tides" restaurant where Tipi Hedren get's her face stung by some crazy woman when the birds are invading. Haha, what a great movie.
Yesterday I heard that an old best friend of mine is finally doing something she's been talking about doing for a year now - to travel the world making a documentary along with a fire-dancer. I love her, I always will, I'm happy for her, and I think about her often. There was always this underlying major clash between our personalities. She knew almost everything about me, accepted me in her way, but couldn't really 'get' me, despite us being a very important part to each other's lives for 8 years. I'm stock full of flaws, but I feel like loving and supporting her, was never enough for her. I guess I felt like mentioning it, because my best friend from Toronto just went to Italy to study for her final year of university, and this past best friend is starting her own adventure and me, I'm coming home from mine.
