From: radzy%sradzy@jack.sns.com (T.O. Radzykewycz)
Subject: trip report and sand-dollars
Organization: The Radzykewycz Clan; Newark, CA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:10:30 GMT

Hi folks

My sweety and I are back from another road trip.  I'll make this
short because of the lack of responses to the previous one.  If you
guys want me to keep doing this, then you'll have to let me know!

We went up to southern Washington state to visit friends (Hi Gren!)
and bookstores and such, though my in-laws thought that we were
there to go to a wedding.  :-)

While we were there, we went to one of the parks that Lynne used to
go to as a kid.  Of course, it was quite a bit different than she
remembered it, but what do you expect after fifteen or more years.
(She might object to the "of course" at the beginning of that
sentence.  Tough.)  One of the neat things there was a small glade
-- only about 80 square feet (7 1/2 square meters).  It was soft,
moist, and green like it had been the dance circle of a band of
fairies the previous night.  It was a pretty special place -- I wish
I could give you all the feeling of the place!

Later, we went to the beach and went looking for treasures.  Lynne
was looking for any kind of treasure that she found, and I was
mostly looking for sand-dollars (only partly because of the
discussion here about them a few months ago).  When we'd been there
a while, I saw the first LIVING sand-dollar that I've ever seen.  I
was really disappointed, since I didn't really expect to find any
that I could take (it's a well-picked beach) and I couldn't do the
selfish thing and take that one with me.  But I consoled myself
with the fact that I had seen a live one, and that it would live a
little longer.  It *was* rather interesting watching the little
stickers/feet wiggle!  The goddess provides, though -- there were a
couple of obviously dead ones that I found later, along with
another live one that also went back into the water.  Well, for
those who are concerned, there still are sand-dollars in Washington
state.  Lynne found a couple of shells that she intends to put on
the altar and some others that she left in the beach cabin we were
staying at.

We drove down the coast of Oregon during the snow storm -- it was,
well, interesting.  Don't think I'll go down that coast in the snow
again for a while.  Stopped at a few of the metaphysical stores
along the way, but didn't find anything really outstanding.  The
best store seemed to be "Crystal Wizard" in Lincoln City.  If you
like quartz and don't want to pay too much for it, that's the place
to go.

We also spent a couple of days in the redwoods parks in northern
California.  Gorgeous!  It was right after a rain, so everything
was at its greenest and the air was fresh and full of forest
smells.

Well, there was a lot more, but I'll close here to keep it short.

Bear Blessings!

			-- radzy

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	T. O. Radzykewycz		|  An it harm none,
	The Incredible Radical Cabbage	|  do as ye will.
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	radzy@cogsci.berkeley.edu       |
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Tribal Mother was old, and lay ill on a bed of moss and
fern.   Her hair was long and grey.   Her face was very
wrinkled.    Tamura'nun-pa thought:   How beautiful you
are, Mother, so old and wise.


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