We heard these creatures sometimes roamed the beaches. They’d been sighted on Boston’s north shore. Our friend from Boston, Letti, took us to the Peabody Essex in Salem where these beests were on exhibit. There are lots of detailed drawings, and models. The beests can move, and they do. Theo, the creator, greeted us through many videos in which he discusses his process, his vision, his passion. He does it with straight face including a ditty about the reproductive process. We look forward to the exhibit getting to San Francisco’s Exploratorium sometime in the next couple of years.
Month: October 2015
Fenway Park Takes Me Back
I’ve never been to Boston though I remember Wade Boggs. It was 1986. Donna and I had returned from our very romantic honeymoon at Packer Lake Lodge. We took lovely hikes and drove the Gold Lake Highway to Graeagle for supplies and sweets. A large bear strode across the road so quickly that it seemed imagined.
The day after returning to work I got sick. Real sick. Tired to the bone sick. I watched post-season baseball. Redsox and Mets. I don’t remember who won but do remember Wade Boggs running bases on old worn out knees and Lenny Dykstra chewing gum, making stunning center field plays and getting on base over and over.
We’re in the air to Boston. My first trip to New England. There are tours of Fenway Park where I’m sure there are vestiges of Wade and that post season back in 1986. It’s only a mile or two from our friend Letti’s place in Cambridge.
I looked it up. The Mets won in 7. Here’s an image with the left field Green Monster.
My Brother
My brother, Allen, and I hadn’t surfed together in maybe 15 years until day before yesterday. We got wet at Ventura Point. Me on my SUP, Allen on his Walden long board. The wind-blown waves were barely rideable but we both caught a few. My brother, at 66, is still fluid on his longboard.
We celebrated our dad’s 95th birthday for three days. We saw whales from Mugu Rock. I think they were humpbacks but they were way off shore toward the Channel Island chain. We ate out. We watched TV game shows. We got him a new phone. We spent time just catching up.
Bev and Allen put out the big birthday spread with fresh corn on the cob, enchiladas, tri-tip, salad, carrot cake and ice cream. Cousin Jon and wife Jamie joined in the celebration.
I look forward to tomorrow’s ride north along the Santa Barbara coast. Hope there’s energy to finish the drive along the Santa Cruz coast
Happy Birthday Poppie.
And of course there’s a highlight video.
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