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Book: The Road Home / Jim Harrison
The mysteries of birds, art, ranching, camping, and family are explored.
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Exhibit:
$My submission to the Sociometry Fair 2000 was a full-size, dented garbage can with a large dollar sign in a circle and crossbar spray-painted on it. Attached to the can was the following essay: HELLO What would it mean to you right now if you lost all access to money? Imagine a bank error has…
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Book: Isobel Kuhn / Lois Hoadley Dick
A biography of my grandmother, a missionary in China who escaped with her 6-year old son (my father) in 1950.
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Book: The Poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingsolver
An intense, personal story in the African Congo that puts in vivid relief the ways the things we hold holy can throw us into conflict with our world.
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Day 255 – The Finish Line
I have a good breakfast and a liesurely morning ride through Eureka to my starting point, Arcata. Time seems to slow down as the finish line approaches. I ride into town at noon, when they sound their warning siren. It rises and falls slowly as I ride by. When I reach the town square it…
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Day 254
Piercy, CA to Fortuna, CA My new tire holds up well this morning. When I reach Humbolt Redwoods State Park I exit 101 for the much more peaceful Avenue of the Giants highway. I ride slowly between the toes of the of the giant redwoods for most of the day, swathed in their mighty shadows.…
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Day 253
Rockport, CA to Piercy, CA In the morning I bid farewell to the ocean and start cranking up Legett Hill. Mossy oaks provide good shade for the work. I get so absorbed in the cranking that I don’t investigate the periodic noise that has developed in the back wheel. Half a mile short of the…
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Day 252
Stewart’s Point?, CA to Rockport?, CA My last day of riding on the coast. I explore Fort Bragg a bit – it has a strange sort of old west look to it. Lots of wooden storefronts. Maybe it’s to go with the logging trucks that roll through on highway 1. I find break fast and…
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Day 251
Forestville, CA to Stewart’s Point?, CA I start the day with a nice ride along the Russian River out to Bodega Bay. When I was 12 my mom and Bruce took me on a group trip called the CoastWalk where we walked the coast through Sonoma and Mendicino counties. These distant memories emerge again as…
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Days 241-250
Forestville, CA Forestville provides an excellent respite from the road. I eat and help cook marvelous meals with Bruce and his wife Mary. I spend a very full day riding backroads south past Sebastapol, Rohnert Park and Petaluma. I was hoping to make it back to the Golden Gate, but it proves too far for…