Tomorrow morning, I'll head for the airport and a trip to Oxnard (North of LA) to visit my friend Manuel and his family, and to see the ocean again. It will just be for two days - I had planned to then proceed up the coast to the Bay Area to visit a number of friends and family there, but I just don't feel up the six-day stretch and all the extra travel stress. Maybe this winter, when all is bleak, frigid and gray here, the Bay Aea will offer a welcome respite of green and (relative) warmth.

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