Ten.Eight Hundred & Thirty-One

1. Up earlier than I wanted to be but here we are.

2. We head back to the diner for a pastry and coffee. Not ready to go.

3. We sit in the car overlooking the ocean while we eat. I stare at the water, so deep and so blue. I wonder what it might be like to be like that couple over there driving up and down the coast in a camper, stopping off in little towns for homemade pastries and a little bit of local conversation.

4. At first I think he knows them but then he throws the fish over the ledge and I realize that something is not quite right. I just make sure the young Germans get into their car and that he doesn’t follow them. Then I see him stab a fish is something long and sharp and raise the fish into the air.

5. The view from here.

6. Make note: Big Basin Redwood State Park.

7. I think I can do the drive for us next week.

8. I realize very quickly that I am actually not a city person. I am a country person. I need the quiet. I need the dark. I need the space.

9. Steak and potatoes and spinach. 2013 Clos Pegase Homage Cabernet Sauvignon. Pound cake.

10. Missing the ocean.