{"id":1601,"date":"2010-07-07T22:05:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2020-04-08T06:23:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T10:23:39","slug":"yet-another-day-in-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/07\/yet-another-day-in-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another day in the series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Woke up, not quite so early this morning. Packed up and rolled out \u2013 back to the same breakfast place to order the exact same thing. Really, when you find a perfect lox bagel \u2013 there\u2019s nothing to do but order it over and over. The coffee shop in Trinidad still makes me happy. They don\u2019t do paper take-away cups. You order a coffee \u2013 you get a mug. If you\u2019re in town for a while, bring the mug back. Or a different mug. Whatever. No paper cups though \u2013 that would make for a lot of trash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drove south to Eureka to the Blue Ox Millworks<\/a>. This is the brainchild of a mad-genius style woodworker who does victorian style woodworking \u2013 mostly with period tools and machines. They demonstrated a treadle powered ripsaw, and a bicycle pedal style jigsaw. He had an interesting quote on the wall:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kids don\u2019t need an education \u2013 they need a problem interesting enough to get them to figure stuff out.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not sure if I agree in toto \u2013 but that\u2019s certainly something I\u2019ve felt about modern education. It seems to squash creativity and interest in problem solving in the interest of facts and figures. Insert your own rant about mass education designed for a population of assembly line workers if you choose. I\u2019ve said it before and don\u2019t need to re-iterate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proceeded South to Ferndale to the victorian town fronts \u2013 and took lunch in our car on the leftovers of last night\u2019s dinner. Did I mention last night\u2019s dinner? The fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and cucumber? The olives (because I couldn\u2019t see buying a pint of olive oil for one salad \u2013 but an appetizer of olives sounded pretty good. The locally smoked salmon? The filet of rock cod, caught that day on the day boats? Because, I can tell you \u2013 even the next day \u2013 a round of bread, some cheese, fresh basil, and smoked fish made a damn good lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we drove down the Avenue of the Giants<\/a> \u2026 about 30 miles of awesome two lane road winding among 1,000 year old trees and kitsch shops. And then<\/strong> we drove approximately the 90 northernmost miles of CA coastal rt. 1. That was some of the most amazing driving I\u2019ve ever done. When they say \u201c25 miles per hour\u201d around a given curve \u2013 I found that I got serious, butt-clenching adrenaline if I came into that curve above about 35. When they said \u201c10 miles per hour,\u201d I laughed out loud and slowed down to 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, when we got to the Glendeven Inn<\/a>, I was totally ready for a glass of wine \u2026 and they were 100% willing to oblige with a flight from the local selection of Pinot Grigios. We relaxed for a couple of hours \u2013 fed the chickens, looked at the llamas, and generally amused ourselves. Then it was off to a solidly vegan meal at Ravens Restaurant<\/a> just up the street. We looked over their gardens as well and pronounced them \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I write this from in front of the massive fireplace in the common room \u2013 and I\u2019m starting to remember why I work so hard: It\u2019s not for the work itself \u2013 but for the rest of life that surrounds it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woke up, not quite so early this morning. Packed up and rolled out \u2013 back to the same breakfast place to order the exact same thing. Really, when you find a perfect lox bagel \u2013 there\u2019s nothing to do but order it over and over.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}