In Rancho Santa Fe nobody would ever think of asking for their autographs or disrupting their privacy, which probably disappoints them, truth be told. Since the terrible mass suicide, the media have been referring to the Heaven's Gate residence as a mansion. But around these parts they call it affordable housing. An average homesite in the Ranch consists of about three acres of land, and many homes are far grander than the one in which the cybercultists shed their earthly containers. A lot of Rancho Santa Fe's estates are large enough to provide pasture for quarter horses, polo ponies, jumpers and Thoroughbreds.
Streets are without curbing, and there are no lights on the winding lanes, trails and roads.
At night, other than the occasional cries of coyotes, it is quiet. Now, alas, the world's media have descended in swarms. They have come in vans, trucks and helicopters. They have demolished the tranquillity and lit up the sky. The media hordes are interviewing everyone.