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Arcata & Eureka: inspirational people & gorgeous scenery

11/2/21

OK, I’m slowly but surely getting caught up here!

Yesterday, the 1st, was a rainy day in Arcata, and I spent much of it in a hotel room, catching up on many “administrative” tasks, which helped me to feel more grounded. It’s nice to have some total solitude and privacy in hotels from time to time, since this is otherwise a very social trip, going from house to house every other day, or in some cases every day. I love meeting and connecting with such a variety of great people, but my introvert self does need some recharging from time to time.

I had spent the previous night in nearby Bayside, with an interesting Warmshowers couple. The wife, Wendy Ring, is a retired physician who is another perfect example of the kind of interesting people I’m excited to connect with on this trip. She told me how, years ago, she had founded a mobile health clinic for underserved populations in the Arcata area, such as undocumented immigrants and houseless people. She started very small, with a basic trailer behind a vehicle, and over the years built it up into a full-service clinic, with a well-equipped large RV. After 30 years of doing this work, she shifted her focus to another pressing social issue: climate change. She now hosts a podcast called Cool Solutions, interviewing people around the nation and the world who are actively working toward solutions for our climate-change crisis.

There are so many people doing great work in the world. It’s a privilege to meet them.

I arrived at their rural house (nestled in the trees, on a gravel driveway, with chickens outside) on Halloween evening, and the weather was very pleasant. (I took the opportunity to bike through an urban redwood park on the way over there from the co-op; see photos above.) As I expected, though, the rains came that night, and soaked the area for most of the next day. I biked only about seven miles to the hotel during that late morning, but arrived with thoroughly drenched feet since my “waterproof” shoes were 15 years old and had lost any semblance of water resistance years ago. (I swapped them out for a new pair today, in Eureka—fingers crossed that the new ones will indeed be waterproof, since I know I’ll need that functionality a lot this month, not to mention next spring on the East Coast.)

After a good night’s sleep at the hotel, I met up with a local Servas host for a brief hike around the Arcata marsh. She told me about some of the local indigenous history of the area (including the neighboring city of Eureka returning an island to tribal ownership two years ago) as well as some of the history of Servas, since she has been involved for many years. The US headquarters had moved from Manhattan to Arcata some years ago, so the local area has more Servas members than many other parts of the country.

After I returned to the hotel and checked out, I bicycled for about an hour and a half into Eureka. I was struck by how rural the trip was. Lots of agriculture and cattle farming, and beautiful views of the Humboldt Bay. It was another beautiful sunny day, which is unlikely to be reprised for the next week or so, so I wanted to take full advantage.

As soon as I arrived in Eureka, I headed straight for the outdoor store to trade in my soggy shoes, then biked over to the Eureka location of the co-op for provisions. Then it was time to head to the Greyhound stop, to catch my bus to Willits, just north of Ukiah, for a stay with another Servas couple. More details on that tomorrow. This journey is so rich and full of experiences!

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North of Arcata: Sumêg Village and Fern Canyon

11/2/21

The past couple of days were beautiful, with some rain and some sun. We set out from Michael’s place in late afternoon on the 30th, after a day of rain, and the views on the road out of town glistened. After dark, the roads turned very twisty and turny, but with some good tunes on the stereo, it was an enjoyable 4-5 hour trek westward.

The next morning we ventured out to a place Michael had wanted to show me: Patrick’s Point/Sumêg Village. The signage had just been updated within the past month or so, to better reflect/respect the native people’s heritage in the place. Sumêg Village is a recreation of what a typical Yurok village would have looked like, before colonization. (Michael also told me something I hadn’t known, but which seems obvious in hindsight: Christopher Columbus’ name in the Spanish language was Cristóbal Colón. Thus, the word “colonization” comes directly from his name.)

There were a variety of structures in this village, including houses (with those round openings—see pic—to keep in heat and keep out large animals such as bears) and a sweat lodge and a sort of amphitheater area. Dugout canoes as well. I was struck by the fact that these folks had no access to metal, so everything they did (felling trees, emptying out logs to make canoes, joining boards to build houses) had to be done via natural means, such as strategically using fire and coals, or tying things with natural vines.

After the village, we briefly stopped at the overlook of nearby Agate Beach, just to get a glimpse of the incredible ocean view.

Then we headed north to Fern Canyon, because someone earlier on my travels had raved to me about it. Our time there was short since Michael needed to get back home, so the hike was very brief, but the drive to get to the hike was breathtaking and, at times, rugged!

After Fern Canyon, we headed back down to Arcata, and Michael dropped me off at the local co-op, where I rested for a bit before continuing to my Warmshowers hosts for the night in nearby Bayside.

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McCloud Falls and Burney Falls

10/31/21

OK, catching up some more. I’m in Arcata now, but I can write about that later. First, I have to catch you up on two days ago, when we went to two different waterfalls near Mt. Shasta. These places were so spectacular! Northern California is everything I had hoped it would be, in terms of breathtaking natural beauty. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves, once again.

First, the McCloud Falls park (the pic above is from there as well):

And then, just as daylight was waning, Burney Falls. (Plus a bonus pic of the sunset just after we left the park.)

I’ll be in a hotel most of tomorrow, waiting out a full-day rain storm in Arcata. (They need it! so I’m happy… but I don’t really want to be out in it, so I’ll be holing up inside, catching up on administrative tasks. And I’ll make a new post about the exploring we did around Arcata today.)

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Off grid in Mount Shasta

10/29/21

Hey all, I’m still alive! I just have very minimal internet access here in northern California.

A brief catch-up of the past few days:

I wrote the previous post from the balcony of my cousin Nathalie’s place in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. We enjoyed another all-too-brief stay of fun-filled conversation, after which I accepted a car ride from my gracious Warmshowers host to the delightful mid-century-styled house he shares with his wife in the neighboring Mount Washington area. I was very thankful for the lift; those hills were unbelievable! He was accustomed to scaling them, and in fact he had recently returned from his own cross-country bicycle trip: 7 weeks from Santa Monica to Washington, DC! Much different pace, and level of athletic prowess, from me. 

I biked down those scenic Mt. Washington hills the next morning, on my way to Union Station. (I love the aesthetics of that station, so I’m sharing a few photos here.)

That ride led into a nice long trip on the train from LA up to the tiny town of Dunsmuir, where I arrived at 4:58 am(!)

My also-gracious host Michael was kind enough to wake up at 3 am in order to pick me up from there, and drive me back in the dark over deeply rain-potholed roads into his gorgeous, remote off-grid cabin near Mount Shasta. (Check out the solar panel! Remind you of anything?)

We went up to the mountain yesterday, where I encountered snow!

We also serendipitously ran into a friend of Michael’s, who is one of the kind of people I was just writing about wanting to meet: Lewis Elbinger, who describes himself on Facebook as a “Multidimensional grandfather, yogi, poet, artist, traveler, diplomat, planetary citizen, [and] evolutionary.” He had worked as a diplomat for many years in Pakistan, as well as several other countries. He gave me a copy of the book he had recently published, “Meditation for Prisoners.” How perfect! I told him about Johnny and his work building the healing garden at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

It’s unbelievably beautiful and serene here. Please enjoy these photos, until I have the time and internet connection to share more in a few days.

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Reconnecting to my purpose on this journey

10/26/21

The other day I shared that I had, somewhat unexpectedly at this juncture, found myself back in the cactus garden in Balboa Park. That place is one of my favorite on Earth. It feels sacred and very resonant to me. When I visit San Diego, I always make a point to visit there at least once, and to sit for a while on one of the benches and sink into myself, observe my current life circumstances, and feel into where I might like to make changes or shift gears in my life.

When I arrived the other day, I had been feeling a bit out of sorts for a few days. I am about six weeks into this yearlong journey right now, and I have had a dizzying array of experiences, most of which have been thoroughly delightful. That was one of my biggest intentions for this trip: to optimize all aspects of my life as much as I possibly could. To know what brings me joy and pleasure, and to very actively and skillfully pursue it:

I know that I love temperate, sunny weather; beautiful natural places; riding my bike and on trains; meeting new people; connecting with friends and family in person; and enjoying all the locally made vegan meals and chocolatey treats I can find. This trip is like a paradise in all these ways.

And yet… I have been starting to feel that something is missing. I am needing to do more to fulfill my need to contribute. Another key part of my original intention—my mission—for this journey was to bring my presence and consciousness to bear on the problems of the world. I was seeking to connect with inspiring people, to learn about their own ideas, and their own work, toward solutions. I wish to learn about these various solutions, and to make a “mental map” of who is working on what, where. I also intend to offer my own emotional and/or strategic support to those people doing the ideation and the work. This is my favorite way of contributing to the collective. One part of that, which I really enjoy, is using my mental map to connect like-minded people with each other, for possible strategic collaborations and/or “fairy godfunding” of great ideas and projects.

Alongside all the wonderful experiences I’ve had so far, and shared here on my blog, I have also been witness to many problems. Among these are rampant homelessness; trash and vandalism of urban and natural spaces; many aspects of colonialism and the harms it has done to many marginalized communities; indicators of climate change such as droughts, fires, and wildly unpredictable and unusual weather conditions; rampant/excessive use of internal-combustion transportation technology, which brings congestion and human frustration as well as untold environmental destruction and community disruption via land use decisions that favor single-occupancy autos; and staggering amounts of solid waste, including single-use plastic.

These are just some of the problems I have seen and felt.

As I continue to stay connected to many people—both known and unknown to me—via social media, I also hear continual refrains of loneliness, as well, from people in all sorts of different life situations. Loneliness, discord, political antagonism, and lack of nourishing human connections are a modern-day plague (alongside the literal plague of COVID, which has exacerbated these problems in a variety of ways.)

We need solutions.

We really, really need a lot of solutions, to a lot of problems.

This is my work in the world.

I do my best to live in accordance with the kind of world I would like to see: minimizing my own auto/internal-combustion-engine use, minimizing my resource use and solid waste, minimizing human and animal exploitation in various ways, treating others with care and respect to the best of my abilities… and so on.

I’m not perfect, by any means. I continue to play a part in these problems.

But I do my best.

And, at the same time, my individual actions pale next to the enormity of these national and global concerns.

I still believe, as I wrote at the beginning of this journey, that my strongest gifts in this world are those of holding a vision for a better world, and doing my best to offer emotional and strategic support to those who are on the front lines of envisioning and/or bringing about this better world.

I haven’t connected yet with as many of those folks as I had hoped to. I want to increase my efforts. And, I want to enlist your help!

As I prepare to begin my bike loop of the US in earnest from northern California around November 1st (my October “southwest rail spur” having wrapped up by then) I want to redouble my efforts to have regular conversations with the people around the US (and/or Canada, and/or anywhere else in the world… but especially those along my route) who are engaged in thinking about these problems, and/or actively pursuing solutions.

Do you know people (or organizations) like that? People I could perhaps meet up with in my travels? I’m very open to phone or video chats as well—especially for those outside of my route—but I like the idea of meeting in person with people, seeing their physical efforts, etc. One great example of this was when I visited and toured the Earthships in Taos, New Mexico a few weeks ago. I’m also looking forward to meeting a really cool couple near Dallas, Texas who are working on solving many social and environmental problems in the world.

I dream of connecting with the sorts of visionaries I admire, such as South American city leaders like Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Colombia, or (the late) Jaime Lerner of Curitiba, Brazil. People like Conrad Wagner, of Mobility CarSharing Switzerland. Or Gil Penalosa, in Toronto, Canada (Enrique’s brother, who works as a global consultant on building vibrant communities). Or Daniel Suelo, “the man who quit money,” who spent years living in a cave outside Moab, Utah, and whose story has inspired many. Or Dr. John Francis, the “Planetwalker,” who didn’t drive or even ride in any motorized transport for 33 years, and who walked across the United States, connecting with and inspiring and teaching people all along the way.

I actually have met a couple of these folks already. (Shoutout to Conrad and Daniel, the latter of whom I recently “met” on Facebook.) I want to meet more!

I want to be like the Paul Erdos of planetary solutions, traveling the country by bike and train, staying with and/or supporting or collaborating with folks who are working on humanity’s thorny problems of the day.

Do you know people like these? Could you introduce us?

People have asked me for an itinerary of where I’m going. I think it would take too much space to list out all the cities, but you can see the general map in the photo. I plan to visit most major cities (and some small towns) along this map. If you know of inspirational people like this who would like to host me for a night or two, that would be a bonus—and would probably allow for more in-depth conversations—but hosting is not necessary, since I’m making extensive use of Warmshowers, Servas, and friend/friend-of-friend networks to find lodging. I am generally spending two nights and one full day in each locale, so that is enough time to meet for coffee or a nature walk or a tour of someone’s local project.

People have also suggested that I use video on this trip. This intimidates me, and I’m not sure I’m ready for it yet, but at some point, perhaps I could add video interviews or “news segments” of these inspiring people and their work to my journey. I want to share with a wider audience the work of inspiring people, and to help connect them with each other.

Thanks to everyone reading this. This journey is a collaboration, and I deeply appreciate all of your support!

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San Diego: Balboa Park!

10/24/21

I made it to San Diego today! I hadn’t planned to visit there on this leg of the trip, although I am hoping/intending to spend at least a week or two in this area in late December. San Diego is my second-favorite US city after Portland, and I have long contemplated moving here, probably not year-round but maybe for the four or five dreariest Portland months of December through March (and possibly November or April).

But today, Michele was working away from Escondido for most of the day, and I took the opportunity to head down into town. San Diego is about 30 miles south of here, and it took me about two hours, all told, to get there: about 20 minutes to the transit center in Escondido (along the canal bike path) and then about an hour on the bus, which deposited me in the center of the I-15 freeway! (Very cool that San Diego has bus rapid transit. Portland is finally, belatedly, dipping its proverbial toe into this concept as I type, on SE Division Street out to Gresham, immediately outside my condo. It will be complete in 2022, presumably by the time I return in September, since most TriMet projects take effect on the Labor Day weekend.)

I folded up the bike and took it up the elevator to University Avenue, then hopped on a #10 bus (which happened to be approaching the stop as I arrived, a lucky break for me since that line only runs once per hour.)

I took the bus out to the two vegan bakeries in the Hillcrest area that I love so much: Hazel and Jade and Starry Lane. I loaded up on sugary deliciousness, and then bicycled over to my favorite destination in this city: Balboa Park, and more specifically its desert garden.

The garden is a very sacred space to me. I never fail to visit it whenever I come to San Diego, and I find it to be a place of centering and renewal for me.

As I wrote yesterday, I had been struggling a bit for the past few days.

The desert garden worked its magic on this. I had a bit of an epiphany, or a renewal of purpose. I will plan to write more about this tomorrow, but suffice it to say my mood made a good turnaround while in that garden space this afternoon.

Afterward I crossed the pedestrian bridge into the Prado, which on a Sunday was truly the sort of vibrant urban gathering space most American cities can only dream of. The weather was perfect, and there were vendors (including a startup vegan sweets company, but I restrained myself this time) and performers, and many revelers of all sorts, out sharing the public space.

Then I biked back up to the I-15, and caught the return bus to Escondido, arriving at the transit center at just the right daylight point to cycle back to Michele’s place before dark.

I feel so good right now.

Tomorrow, back to LA for a couple of days!

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Old Escondido Train Depot + Dixon Lake

10/23/21

Today was a pretty quiet day here in Escondido, about 30 miles north of my beloved San Diego. Honestly, my mind and emotions have been in a bit of a swirl the past few days, so I needed a bit of decompression, which I found in a local park that I biked to along the canal path. (I’m noticing lots of canal bike paths in these desert areas: Phoenix, LA, Escondido, even Klamath Falls in Oregon’s high desert. I think, as my friend Michele pointed out today, we don’t have many canals in rainier climates, but in dry desert areas, they have historically been needed to collect and harness the water that does fall. And now, with so many of them having walking/biking paths next to them, they are a different kind of public resource—one that I especially appreciate.)

This trip has been so wonderful so far, but I suppose it is the human condition to just feel a bit “off” sometimes. The constant travel can be exciting, but at times tiring. Interacting with lots of people is something I love, but it can still sometimes be a bit overwhelming to my introverted self, who mostly sat on my own couch for the past year! And general worries like staying connected to my existing friends, financial (in)security after “jumping into the breach,” concerns about whether the weather and topography, etc will continue to go my way in the rest of the year…. all these kinds of things can get into my head and feel a bit stressful at times.

Sitting in the sun in a cute little neighborhood park (Grape Day Park) helped with this, though, as did a good phone conversation with a close friend this evening. (Johnny, for those of you who know him. His clemency application is slowly moving through the process. Please keep your fingers crossed for him. We will all be better off if he has a chance to use his incredible skills and passions in service of humanity from outside those bars, where he can do even more powerful work than he has done inside.)

Also in that park today, I found the old Escondido train depot! You all know how much I enjoy train travel, as well as the visuals of old rail paraphernalia, so you can appreciate how I felt when I saw the building with its signs, and this old mail car. I like that they can remain in this modern-day city park.

Later in the afternoon, Michele drove me (and her trusty canine companion Dawa) up to a nearby nature park and campground called Dixon Lake. We drove up through the campsite area, and the views were gorgeous!

Tomorrow I may go in to San Diego. I had thought I might wait for that until I return to this area in December, but I really love Balboa Park (and the two Hillcrest vegan bakeries that are only a few blocks apart from each other!) so I may make the trek. Probably on the bus, since it’s 30 miles, and biking it would take more of the day than I would want.

To those of you reading this: thank you for following along with me on my adventures. Whether I’m having a euphoric day or a challenging one, it helps me to know I can share it with my larger community, all around the world.

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Joshua Tree National Park

10/22/21

Another full day today! My friend Michele drove over from Escondido, just north of San Diego, to meet me and join me at Joshua Tree National Park.

First we went to visit her friend Walt, who lives near my host Lauren in Yucca Valley. He teaches Qi Gong, and has built the large lot surrounding his house into an amazing property with both sacred and whimsical spaces. My photos weren’t great, so I’ll leave that to your imagination and focus on the main visual event of the day, but Walt’s place was cool. He even shared a pomegranate he had plucked from his own tree, right in front of my eyes!

After our visit with Walt, Michele and I and her dog Dawa headed over to the park, and I’ll let the photos speak for themselves. We covered only a small section of the park, because it is so huge. Of course there were Joshua trees all over the place, but I was also struck by the topography of the place: all the huge rocks and mountains, of different shapes and colors, and the canyons. It was a sight to behold, and a place to feel deeply.

Afterward, on our way back to Escondido (where I’ll be staying for the next couple of days) we drove through Palm Springs, hitting it just during the golden hour. My photos from there don’t do it justice, either, so I’ll spare you, but the midcentury shapes and colors of much of the upscale housing stock, interspersed with all the palm trees and bright pink and purple desert flowers, and surrounded by large scenic mountains in the setting sun, was really worth experiencing. I’m glad I got a chance to return there after Yucca Valley and Joshua Tree.

Tomorrow will probably be mostly a rest day, though we may explore the local canal path by bike. Although I thoroughly enjoyed my time in New Mexico and Arizona, it feels good to be back in California. This state will be my home from now until the end of the year.

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Yucca Valley and Joshua Tree

10/21/21

Today was a day to survey the scene in this area, before my trip to the actual Joshua Tree National Park tomorrow with my friend Michele.

I started the day with a house-call massage! (My host had one scheduled for herself, and suggested I snag an appointment right after hers.) This felt like a splurge, since I’m doing my best to minimize costs on this journey, but I think it was well worth it; I could really feel all the muscles throughout my body during the massage. I think I’d like to go ahead and plan on getting one per month while I’m on this trip. Seems like a worthwhile investment to keep my body in good working order.

After that, in the early afternoon, I headed out on my bike to check out two locally owned natural food stores—one in Yucca Valley and the other in Joshua Tree—knowing that in addition to enjoying browsing in these places, the journey would take me through the local landscape. The round trip was about 20 miles, and I did get to pass a great many of the local eponymous trees. They are legally protected: it is not allowed to cut down a Joshua Tree, even on one’s own property. My host has at least one in her yard. (See the photo in yesterday’s post.) Today I passed miles and miles of them. It sort of reminded me of the feel of the saguaro cacti in the Phoenix area, dotting sunbaked hills and mountains along many roads.

The desert climate and landscape take some getting used to for me. I wanted to “opt out of winter” in dreary and rainy Oregon, and I’m glad I’m doing so. (Today was 77 here, which I love.) But the starkness and desolation of these desert landscapes feels a bit harsh to me. I think I would find it challenging to live in such a climate. I feel the scarcity of water on a visceral level.

I’ve got lots more desert coming up later in my trip: pretty much all winter will be spent in desert areas in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. I think I’ll be ready for spring in the southeast; I might even welcome the dreaded rain and humidity by that time!

But tomorrow, I’m excited to explore Joshua Tree National Park, and possibly also a hot spring and a botanical garden.

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Palm Springs and Yucca Valley

10/20/21

Well, I slept from about 7:30 am until my alarm went off three hours later at 10:30, in the Palm Springs Motel 6. Getting there by bike in the dark (and a bit of sandy wind) was honestly a bit harrowing, but I made it safely. The room was upstairs, though, so I had to once again unpack the trailer downstairs—trying not to be too noisy for the neighbors at about 6:15 am—and carry them upstairs separately. I struggled with the key card for a couple of minutes, too, which tested my patience after a sleepless night, but I eventually got myself and my belongings inside so I could rest.

Then at about noon, I checked out of the motel and headed south on Indian Canyon Road toward Palm Springs. I wanted to see the town—if only briefly—to experience the unique housing stock as well as hit a locally owned natural food store and Native Foods founder Tanya Petrovna’s to-go vegan restaurant and shop Chef Tanya’s Kitchen.

After I got some tasty goodies from those two places, I met up with my Yucca Valley host—another friend of my Oregon friend Judy—who picked me up at Chef Tanya’s to spare me the mountainous climb to her place right near Joshua Tree.

I arrived in the afternoon, just in time to meet several of her neighbors at a small happy hour gathering she hosted on the back patio. We had some good food and drinks, and talked about the local area as well as my travels.

After the other guests left, I took a few photos from the patio, of the beautiful Joshua tree environment.

I’m running on very little sleep now, so I’m losing steam fast, but after catching up on some rest tonight, I’m looking forward to a massage(!) tomorrow, which I think will be extremely welcome to my body at this point in the journey, and then I’ll head out and explore this unique and magical landscape!

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