May 11th, 2008
The Sea Ranch is a lovely, private community on the rocky, seal-scattered shores of the northern California coast in Sonoma County just south of the Mendocino County line. My in-laws live here and we visit at least once a year. I highly recommend getting yourself some in-laws who live in a place like this rather than, say, Myanmar.
It’s only taken us a quarter of a century to figure out how to do it up right though.
In the beginning, we’d strap the kids into their carseats after dinner, red-eye the 10 hour drive up from L.A. and collapse on the hilly sofabed in the studio downstairs.
This time we rented our own little Sea Ranch house for the week (called, appropriately, “Moonscape”). The best thing about it, aside from absolute privacy, is the hot tub on the deck. I know I’m probably going to Carbon Footprint Hell, but damn, 105-degree water, bare skin and open sky… Turn the jets up, honey.
There was a waxing crescent moon this week with plenty of earthshine on the dark side. We renamed the constellations. The new ones are: The Mousepad in the north. Straight overhead there is The Pencil, though one of the stars in that one moved over the course of the week, so it was a more like a pencil than we knew when we named it, getting stubbier each day. Just to the south of the Pencil lies the three stars of the Aeron Chair.
I think if we had another week the names would change to happier subjects. The Wineglass? The Hot Tub? The Silk Scarf?
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