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Hello all you fine friendly folk, from Fort Bragg, CA.  hows that for alliteration ay?!

Here comes some memory vomit.... let's go backward in time, shall we.  if you just got an avett brothers song stuck in your head, well, i did too.

so last night we stayed with a warmshowers host named Carrie.  She's doing AmeriCorp in fort bragg with a nonprofit called Food Forest.  They grow vegetables for local schools and teach the kids in the schools about the benefits of growing/eating local food.  She just signed on for her second year of doing it cuz it's a pretty sweet job overall.  She also enjoys classical piano, especially Chopin's ballade in g minor.

the past few days before that we've been camping in the forests, where some mighty tall trees have been growing for a thousand years or so.  we got to run across a 200 foot tall tree that had fallen over, and crawl through a hollowed out tree that had fallen over as well.  walking through the old growth pines makes you feel incredibly tiny.  and seeing all the rings on the trunks makes you feel very young hahaha.  

when we were biking further inland the weather turned warm and sunny and our water bottles started draining much faster.  yesterday we got back to the Pacific, however, and the layers are back on and the water stops are less frequent.  both have their merits =0)

before all the forest camping we stayed in Arcata, where our friend Allison is going to Humboldt State.  Arcata is kind of like Ithaca in its vibe, and I would definitely like to live there for awhile.  There was a contra dance going on in a couple of days but alas, we decided to move on.  We will probably get to contra dance this weekend in San Francisco, though, so Lauri's month of withdrawal will finally come to a close.  In the San Fran area we'll start meeting up with a bunch of friends too- maybe Marykate and Dankwan, Allison again, Maya and Sean (who drove out to San Diego with us), and Marianne, our friend from the outdoor school.  

Our friend Andrea has been biking with us since Arcata and she is pumping up the hills like it ain't nobody's business.  She is always super energetic and excitable, but yesterday she was flying especially high, despite the fact that it was our hilliest day in awhile.  Route 1 is a little bit janky with all the steep switchbacks and lack of shoulder, but it's like you get to ride a bike rollercoaster all day long, and there's not too much traffic so it's a pretty good time.

I'm off to the beach I do believe.  So long for now!

Love,

Laura, and everybody