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Palo Alto

Tiiired. Two great days in the Bay including catching up with old haunts & friends & finding new ones too.

All ready to head off for Black Rock City, NV in the morning. Need...sleep...

 
How freaky is this..?

Click here & then here.

Helene, who we're staying with at the moment, is in the second pic, both pix taken after the Phoenix Festival.

Neither Helene or I have never met Jess, in the first pic, who writes Poprocks.

Helene's pic from her husband Vinz's site.

 
By the way, the time stamp on these posts is GMT, not local time, so subtract 8 hours if you need to know. And the archives are being painful but will be fixed soon.

 
Morro Bay

Well, one advantage from not getting a weekend in LA - Rob M, my man in West Hollywood was up in SF being band manager - is that we can dawdle up the California coast as we please and so here I is, blogging from the foyer of the Twin Dolphins Motel. Where the maids use polish that smells of reet fine CKB. Niiiice.


Morro Bay is a strange place, in a fun way. The town is dominated by two things, a bloody great big Gibraltaresque rock and a bloody great big power station. An interesting juxtaposition of man & nature to say the least.


We had a easy 120 mile drive up from SB yestrday taking in the coast, farmland, mountains and the rather smart collection of music we've brought with us but the Saturday night in Morro Bay was a good time. The whole tourist quayside end of town seems to shut up once all the families have rolled off to bed around 10. Being good li'l British boys we headed off for the 'village' part of MB - a whopping two blocks up from the quayside - and got to get drunk with the locals including a very chatty lady, Jane, who filled us in on local politics, local weather and the reason she moved to MB from upstate New York..."the kids left home & there was noone around to unfreeze my car in the winter". She also reminded me of the fact that California is to the US what the US is to the rest of the world. More about that later...


Should really get a scoot on as we're going to do the premium leg of the trip, San Simian to Monterrey via Big Sur. Should get some pix up before too long once we get camped up with Helene & Vinz in Palo Alto.