Beaten Unconscious by What
I lost the last few weeks. Between my high school reunion in LV and strategic planning in Tahoe for work the rest has been a blur. A typical night has been make dinner and have some wine or out to dinner for margaritas. That means the next day at work is a 2-3 cups of coffee day, finish the day and repeat. I don’t want to sound like it has been out of control binge drinking, I have just felt disconnected. Like I have been going through the motions. I believe I was working while at work and still thinking although a bit more like a computer responding based on previous inputs and outputs with little consciousness.
This weekend I started a detox. It being Halloween I couldn’t necessarily give up cocktails so I gave up coffee as a start. I think coffee makes me crazy. It just adds to the monotony of the work day and contributes to my fog in the morning. We decided to stay home this weekend instead of traveling to Reno mostly because we needed it. We got invited to a party Friday night which was great! We didn’t dress up, I joked with Elliott that we were going to the party as lame-o’s. Because we didn’t dress up I insisted that we bring the ingredients for a cocktail that would be Halloween related. So we brought – Dracula’s Kiss. It was a hit so I felt like we contributed. We also joked that we looked like Old Navy models, which was pretty true. Who knew that two people who went through a phase of skull t-shirts and dark eyeliner with jeans held together with safety pins would turn out to be so preppy! We learned a new game called liars dice which was a lot of fun (similar to the card game bullshit), it will definitely be making an appearance at the holidays if we can get any traction with it at either of our families.
As a back track Friday day we went to the Ardenwood farm in Fremont. Including a tour of one of the old farm house. I am not usually into museum type stuff although the house tour was cool. They had an ice box that was the refrigerator of the day. And so many kitchen appliances that were hand powered, it was pretty cool. We didn’t have a camera so no pictures to post…
Today, despite the grand entrance of the rainy season we decided to hit another bay area back road. Totally unsustainable, I know, driving is still one of our favorite things to do. We drove up towards Sonoma. We went up 101 to Healdsburg and then headed west to Stewart’s Point. What an amazing drive! It was so beautiful. Some of the first pictures are at the Sonoma Lake with a really cool overlook area with a great view of the earthen dam.
We continued on and eventually hit the coast and highway 1. I wanted to visit the small towns general store although it was closed… So we headed south to see Jenner. We stopped when we saw a cafe open, I had a banana for a snack although approaching 1:30pm I think Elliott was pretty hungry. The food was perfect. May be just the thing to inspire me to set up a yelp account! We were the only 2 in the place, not surprising for a rainy day on the coast. We had hot tea, chowder, ham & swiss, a burger – yum!
Then we drove through Jenner and through Bodega Bay. I really wanted to go to Bodega Bay because I always think that a certain is bridge is there that I want to see. I don’t know why but my brain can’t remember that the bridge is in Redding. My mom put me onto this bridge and I think every time I ask her about the bridge in Bodega Bay and she looks at me questionably until she can extrapolate my reference. Well we never found the bridge because apparently it is in Redding, just a little off!
At any rate we had a great day together. Stopping to take in the ocean. Listening to the rain. Snapping pictures. Oh and we saw some of those happy cows you hear about in California. They were walking along highway 1, I have to agree they most be really happy cows!
We posted pics of our adventure here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elliottgoodwin/sets/72157608581224327/
Oh, I totally forgot, saved the best for last. We don’t have a picture to prove it, both me and our camera are too slow. Although we saw a wild boar walking down and then cross the street right in front of us. We are such yuppies that this was nearly the highlight of our day! I had never seen such an animal. Pretty cool.
