Day 9’s been a rest day.

“Ahhhhhhh.”(Yesterday Heidi taught me the sign for “Ahhhhh”. What a great one to learn. She’s been a very patient and tenacious teacher. Mahalo Heidi!)

Good internet connection at Zelda’s on the Beach in Capitola and Cafe Gratitude in downtown Santa Cruz made it possible to upload all these photographs today. : )

Tomorrow we’ll walk 12-miles to Sunset State Beach. Then comes 15-miles on Saturday, 7 on Sunday, and 12 or so on Monday . . . Tuesday next week (the 14th) will be another rest day. Ahhhhhhhhhhh.

Love hearing from you.

Hugs and kisses from Sj

Fotos below: (I was the designated leader of the day. : )

At the start of each walk we picked a  leader and “sweeper” to bring up the rear.

We left the most awesome campground in Costanoa

for Davenport, a tiny town along the coast of California.

The owner of the local roadhouse, graciously shared his property for our camp site. Mahalo Davenport Roadhouse!

Day 6’s walk went unbelievably fast!

It felt like we finished almost immediately after we’d started.

Later, towards the end of the walk, many said that this was their favorite fire side evening. : )

I’d love to hear from you guys. What was your FAVORITE camp site? Fire side setting? Meal? Walk? Etc . . .

Signing off while sitting in a nice cafe in Capitola (Zelda’s on the Beach : ) and resting my dawgs.

Aloha Everyone!!!

-Sj

Pescadeo, California.

When you visit the state beach page, you’ll get the idea that there’s ONE beach. That ain’t so! How do I know? We walked to the first one, thought, “Yahoo!” only to find out that we needed to walk to the NEXT one!

This particular day started out fairly sunny. After a brief stint of fog (and a beautiful fog bow : ), the sun shook itself and chased all the fog away. But with that shake came a gradual build up of wind. As it became windier and windier, the number of walkers began to decrease until there were only four of us trudging along California’s Highway 1. By the end, we were bowed over into crescent moons, doing our best to keep the sand and dirt out of our eyes, mouths, noses, and ears. That’s why there aren’t any photos during this phase of the walk.

When we reached that second Pescadero State Beach park, we sighed a powerful group sigh which almost matched the dusty breeze. We were quickly swept into support vehicles and transported to the small town cafe, where we either drank coffee, beer, or wine : )

Next stop and our home for two nights?  Butano State Park.

Here are da pix!

Here are my fav’s from Day 2 of the Walk for ASL.

Enjoy!

-Sj

After several months of back-and-forthing on our private facebook page (what to pack, what we all eat and don’t eat, where to meet, etc. ) the Walk for ASL began!

We gathered at Ft. Baker in Sausalito, California (just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco).

Below is a slide show of my photos from that day.

Enjoy!

-Sj