{"id":5424,"date":"2014-07-27T17:07:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T01:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2014-07-27T17:20:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T01:20:46","slug":"roadtrip-1-seastacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/roadtrip-1-seastacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadtrip #1. Seastacks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, my wife Sylvia and I set out for a drive along the coast from San Francisco to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/steeproute1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We stuck to Route 1 most of the way, it\u2019s a slow two-laner, but it\u2019s great to be by the ocean.  As opposed to being on a giant interstate like Rt. 5.  This said, we did take Rt. 5 for most of the way home\u2026two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/searanch.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d always been curious about the Sea Ranch development on the coast north of SF, but it\u2019s kind of boxy.  Good cliffs, though.  And a bathroom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/rudyrainforest.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Further north in California we got to the redwood zone.  Love those ferns and the greenness.  <\/p>\n<p>Later we stopped at a giant log that had been hollowed out to be a trailer home and dragged around the country in the 1940s.  Checked out a tree we could drive our car through.  And then what?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/coupleonrock.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We saw a lot of big rocks in the ocean, they call them \u201cseastacks.\u201d\u009d  A cute young couple climbed one of them and hugged.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/giantstackswoman.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In northern California, south of Eureka and Arcadia, Route 1 veers away from the ocean because the coast is too intensely rocky, and there\u2019s an area called the Lost Coast where we visited our old college friend, Dick Scheinman.  But I\u2019ll save that for the next blog post.<\/p>\n<p>For today let\u2019s jump ahead into driving Rt. 1 along the Oregon coast. We started getting to really <em>big <\/em>seastacks up there.  You feel like an ant among them, which is always a nice feeling. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/bandonwarpstacks.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The greatest seastacks were in a town called Bandon, Ore.  You can remember it as Abandon without the A.  We stayed at the inexpensive old <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.bandonbeachmotel.com\/Features.asp\">Bandon Beach Motel <\/a>near the Coquille Point, where there\u2019s a serious buttload of seastacks.<\/p>\n<p>Pan shot of the stairs down to the beach from the motel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/bandontanguy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the morning it was misty and the tide was low.  I walked along the beach for an hour, getting some really nice pictures.  It was like being in a painting by Yves Tanguy.  You used to see a lot of book covers like this on SF novels in 1950s and early 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/bandonpoolbird.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exquisite reflections and patterns, and the little birds animating the scene. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/rudybandon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was totally, totally into it, natch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/bandonclammer.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I talked to an old guy who was digging for clams.  He\u2019d stick this tube into the sand to, like, chase them down as they were digging to get away from him.  He wasn\u2019t having a good day, he\u2019d only bagged about four of them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/anenomes.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Intense wads of anemones as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/rudygnarl.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sylvia came down on the beach, too, and we found a piece of \u201cdriftwood\u201d\u009d nearly the size of a house.  Wonderful gnarl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/rockpocks.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the source code is pocks in the rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, my wife Sylvia and I set out for a drive along the coast from San Francisco to Vancouver. We stuck to Route 1 most of the way, it\u2019s a slow two-laner, but it\u2019s great to be by the ocean. As opposed to being on a giant interstate like Rt. 5. 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