8/14/09

Now more to add to surf journal. Maybe this will be good during recovery time…

I did the trip just like the 7 in 7; 10 in 12 project – which we’ll learn about later.

This time however, it was the “25th High School Reunion and Camping with the Lipnickes” trip. Plus I got to see Willy Will I and his family and newborn; then went to my brother’s house and saw him and his wife and my new nephew – plus my mom was there.

I finally decided that I was going to go to that reunion on the way down.

Friday Morning: Surfed at Manresa on the way out of town. Drove south through the haze of the wildfires listening to The Grateful Dead, Wilco and downloads of This American Life on my mp3 player.

I stayed in Lompoc at the Quality Inn – it wasn’t bad and they beat the rate of the holiday inn express that I have stayed at before. This is the town I like to use to stage for surfing at Jalama beach. I am also fascinated by the (Caltrans) State Highway as Strip Street for municipality. This is always what I think I’ll do PhD research on. Compare the operations of the state owned strip (mall, commercial) streets to those that are under local authority. Whow, I thought this was surf journal?

After a nice nap I hiked around town and got me some beer and food at the shopping center across the street. Went back to hotel and went to bed at 9 or something crazy like that after watching Fox Sports net show the Angels get their asses kicked by the Orioles. Felix Pie hit for the cycle and made a killer catch. Not enough pitchers for the Angels, and the bullpen was empty while all this happened. Only the poor pitcher out there alone in what was described as a “debacle” on the LA sports pages. Unlike little league, there was no mercy rule to stop the game when it wasn’t fun anymore. They had 16 runs scored on them by the time it was over.

This is actually one of the key questions behind this whole operation: Where does Northern California end and Southern California begin? (Or vice versa?)

Well, in Lompoc the TV stations are fed from Los Angeles – hence the Angels game on Fox Sports and the Dodgers game on Kcal 9. You are then likely to see ads for car dealers in Orange County that are still out of reach of this audience. It’s not just a hinterland though. The local TV programming and local activities are pretty awesome.


Like in Paso Robles, they are still as different as either place.