neilwaukee: Santa Cruz

the happy couple cutting the pie- maybe they should open the pie shop

we drove straight down to San Jose to meet hot mike at the airport and got there really early, Me and Michelle my trucker wife,drinking coffee driving from dusk till dawn listening to tapes, so i wake up, hearing something old, like hardcore or phish

this is not a trail is just perfect, apparently all the land around big sur is private property, and some amazing and isolated beaches going to wild waste so everyone just climbs around the fences and explores

Forest and i, on his first carny ride, could i be any larger, fucking giants flying dragons with kidnapped babies

this is and always has been my favorite ride, so primitive and 1920's with all the lights and chains, bucket seats and paintings on the ceiling, Dasheills fav too

Toby and the boys watering his garden, they love him and they love playing with water- they grow some short girthy carrots down there-

look at Forest's little hand

i was in the wedding party so there are no upfront photos of the wedding, we'll have to wait for the real photos, i was the incredibly late, lost, best worst man, jesus, what a great wedding though, everyone was so beautiful and Toby's speech was just perfect and no,i do not have photos of the infamous pie room, filled with about thirty, hand built custom individually flavored pies, i ate five slices- being polite

Dashiell climbing a tree to escape the land squirrels/rats

my boys love to throw stuff, so were all throwing rocks, into the big sur river, i tried to teach them to skim, but as soon as i turned around, Forest tried to break Dasheills knee with a boulder

note the white back on that guy, yuck

it took me 16 months to get my first hug from that baby and in less than three days, Toby gets the lov'n

Monterrey Bay Aquarium- and the huge deep water tank-Mee Mee snuck in, because we're too cheap to pay thirty bucks a piece

we went to the bodega everyday to get ice cream, here we are sitting on the front steps of Toby and Suzanne's new life

the gang heading off to SF and yes i am vogueing- don't we all look feral

Andrew Molera State park, no waves, but a lovely beach and camp site, very quiet though, i wouldn't recommend bringing a screaming baby- but we did

good morning bunny

Big Sur look out

people like to sign trees but i don't know why

the glory of my favorite ride, Victorian in it's new electric lights and dominate chains

Forest would have watched the log flume Loggers Revenge, all night- every time a log peeked over the hump, he'd point and get all wide eyed

did i mention how cute Toby and Suzanne are ?

Toby's favorite surfer magazine cover of all time

detail- what the hell- a robotic knight with a bloody sword riding a robotic sled about to crash into some monster while getting shacked-

we ate a lot of Halibut, taco's, breakfast scramble, steaks, all of which they caught right off the coast- delicious

headland morning hike, after i tried to find the 2000 foot hike trail head, but couldn't

i bombed the Henry Miller Library's front door, they are closed Tuesday's, and every time i drop by, they have some great paintings of his inside and lots of books- and now they have mine