Hello!
January 29 may have been the last time you heard from me, just before I left Melbourne. I spent less than day in Auckland before deciding to leave. I came back to the US the next day. The cost to change my flight was $100.
I'll now just visit places with as many sunlight hours per year as LA. The tail end of a typhoon was in Auckland the day I arrived, encouraging me to move on, and I was tired of wandering.
I spent three months in Goleta and left on May 6, this time with Andrea. In that time we worked for about three weeks on another library moving project. We moved maps from storage back into the main library.
Another adventure was beginning to fill out our health care agent designation paperwork regarding what to do if we cannot speak for ourselves. AKA health care advanced directive.
Tomorrow we may be headed up the Cannell Meadow Recreation Trail. Then to Lone Pine, then to Sequoia NP, then, somehow, to Lake Tahoe. And then somehow returning to Goleta by August 6, perhaps along the coast. We're hiking. We already walked from Ojai to Frazier Park.
I’m reading books by Jerzy Gregorek, who I learned about on a Tim Ferriss podcast last summer. In particular, I plan to finish The Happy Body Book at some point. I’m continuing to read Angle of Repose and other random books. I’ve been listening to podcasts by Taylor Cowen and to audiobooks by authors who have visited UCSB as part of the Arts & Lectures program, as well as other books—The day I ate whatever I wanted, for example. I enjoyed listening as I bicycled back and forth to downtown Santa Barbara, while swimming, and while walking from Coal Oil Point toward Bacara and back.
Mid-September, Andrea and I will probably head to the Knoxville area for three to four weeks to visit Green Knees Farm.
This winter I may try to head to Chile for at least a month in search of warm, dry pine forests such as we have here above 5,000 feet. So that could be starting mid-December.
Here is the link for a PDF of pictures until March 17: https://app.box.com/s/owf38x50zhaoyq1ir8uyk2o92jy6qzq6 (126.3 MB)
Or just visit bit.ly/cplbox2018 and browse for it!
Here is the PDF with photos up to Kernville and to May 19: https://app.box.com/s/js92am9uezqu5e0j6t94h1fre3a1bk3w (161.2 MB)
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