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This was a great party last year; this was a greater party this year.

I still think it's a mistake not to have VIP access to Kinky Bohemia: upstairs is too much fun to deny yourself. It's an even bigger mistake to miss Breakfast of Champions the next morning on the street outside of Mighty. The professionals make it to that party the next morning....
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What you need to know about living aboard a sailboat in San Francisco can best be summarized in one sentence:

You can't afford San Francisco proper or Marin (>$1,500/month if you're lucky and know someone), so it's down to San Mateo County or Alameda County, and there you sneak-aboard.

In my own damn case, I work in SoMa, so I've opted to leave behind Berkeley...
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Los Angeles to Santa Barbara in about 10 hours, arriving at night, seas smooth as glass.

Oil rigs turn out to look like alien spacecraft at night.

Next weekend: rounding Point Conception for Morro Bay.

Still room for two Suicide Girls on board, maybe three

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But not home yet: it's in Los Angeles, and needs to be in San Francisco.

This weekend I'll try and move her at least as far as Santa Barbara, maybe Morro Bay if the weather cooperates.

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Probably the best view of the bay area IN the bay area.

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I'm a big fan of California's claim to US highway 395. Something about the landscape really speaks to me: desolate, stark, peppered with hot springs and forests. There are few places on this planet I'd rather retreat to.

If you agree, you should watch Clint Eastwood's 1973 classic "High Plains Drifter" and see how long it takes you to figure out where it was set....
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