another week flies by.

last week flew by! i worked at our other site leading a great field group and teaching line dancing. it was interesting to work at another site and get a different perspective. my field group was a lot of fun at first, but at the end of the week, i think we had a little too much of each other.

it has started to get rather cold once the sun goes down (which is at 5pm!). crazy. i need to remember to bring more and more layers with me every day.

i think the highlight was teaching a solid orienteering class. i'd only taught it once before, so i wasn't sure how it would go. my goal this time was to teach a short class and let them loose with compasses. it worked and they had a blast!!

right now i am staying at the guest house of one of my coworker's rich uncles. apparently he invented online credit card transactions...so he has a guest house that he hosts people in! it has 4 bedrooms, a view of the ocean and the forest, a wood stove, full kitchen and projection tv. basically the opposite of where i live and where we've been staying (well, minus the views).

the past two nights we've been traveling up the coast. the first day we stopped for a delightful meal in ventura before meeting my friend kristy in santa barbara for a stroll along the pier. we camped out along the beach just north of santa barbara. it was spectacular. the next day, we ate brunch at the rock and roll diner. it was spectacular. we spent the day stopped at random spots along the way: the hearst castle (which we didn't tour because it was way too expensive), the elephant seal viewing area, and then finally we found our camping spot at limekiln creek. we set up our tents near the creek. the creek fed directly into the ocean...which was a 3 minute hike from our campsite. watching the sunset over the ocean horizon with the waves crashing against the cliffs was breathtaking.

today we drove up the coast some more...stopping to visit mcway falls, the only waterfall to pour directly into the ocean! pretty great. then we kept driving up along the coast to get to santa cruz!

off to enjoy the guest house.