The Furious Spinner

Hello, Spinners! We're in L.A. Okay, technically we are in L.A. County. We settled just outside of Los Angeles for the night. I called our friend Sylvia who lives in Long Beach to see if she wanted to meet for tea, but she has her darling grandchild Milo on Wednesday, so we might catch her on the way back.

I've always been afraid of L.A. Because of the traffic and the polluted air. Until last year. Remember when I got off the train in LA, rented a car, drove down the Venture highway, and then headed for Sacramento? After that I wasn't such a fraidy cat.

So today. Woke up feeling like shit. Nose swollen to the size of...a tangerine. Allergies. Headache. Bleck. Bleck. Bleck. We stopped in Sacramento at the food co-op, but my flare-up just got worse. I was so discouraged. I just wanted to be home. Then we went to Andy Nguyen's vegetarian Vietnamese restaurant. They made me a clay pot dish with tofu and vegetables (instead of using soy-based fake meat). The name of the dish was something like Finding Faith. I felt much better after I ate.

The rest of the day floated by. Or we floated by. After you're on the road for a while, everything fuzzes away. Or rather, the road gets clear, but everything else fuzzes away. Whatever happens doesn't seem to go into long term memory. I do remember the rest areas we stopped at today were nasty. I took some photos of what we passed. So much of what you see off of I5 is ugly. Industrial looking. Or mile after mile of fallow fields. Mile after mile of orange and almond trees. (This part was not ugly but a reminder of how much pesticides are used here.)

We watched the sky turn scarlet at a gas station, semi-trucks driving all around us. Still we found paradise for a moment as we linked arms and looked at the sky together.

Now I'm about ready for dream land in La La Land. 0 comments

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