West Seattle High School is just down the street from me. Their track has always been my go-to place for interval training. But since Covid, it has become a bastion of the CrossFit crowd, with people lifting weights, running sprints, and carrying around these strange bowling balls with handles on them.

We took a three road trip during the middle of the Pandemic down the Oregon and California coasts to Arizona and back. Things were strange enough on the way down. They got stranger on the way back up.

The Pacific Coast from Eureka, CA up to Yachats, OR is one of my favorites. It’s wild with surf, rocks - some the size of city blocks - seemingly cast off into the ocean hither thither, and giant trees that stand as gendarmes in mountain groves that rise right up from the beaches.

The pictures don’t really represent what is going on in this state with Covid-19; rather, they reflect our focus on not being a part of it. We left Santa Barbara after an early breakfast with Becky and drove up the 1, stopping at Half Moon Bay which looked beautiful on the map but which was pretty much closed down. [more…]