On the Road to Carmel

ALSO, on the way back from my parents in San Francisco, we stopped in Carmel, to visit our friend Matthew P who is quarantining with his parents there. It added an extra TWO hours to the trip but it was WORTH IT! Matthew P is a dear friend, and I got to see Carmel for the first time! He drove us around where he grew up and we went to the beach to walk our dogs. Jerry was wary of his new friend, I think he was just scared. By the end of the day they were getting along! Matthew P’s dog is the first dog Jerry has actually gotten along with. This is big, people. Anyway, we were driving along the road by the ocean, and looking at all the houses, and my favorite houses were the cottages; they almost looked English or East Coast. I think I’d like to have a vacation house there. I could picture myself sitting at the window, writing with Matt…we’d need millions of course, to have that, but that’s inconsequential! Dreams like that cost nothing when you’re my age. I’m not old and bitter and desperate YET! Give me another ten years! Then Matthew P said that soon all those houses will be under sea level in like 50 years. But people are still paying millions for them. I thought that was sad; all that amazing architecture underwater…but also, how cool would that look? A perfect English cottage underwater, covered in seaweed and barnacles? I both hope and dread the fact I’ll live to see it. Rising sea levels and global warming is not a hoax people!