Status update
And lo, it is indeed 36 hours after my last post. It turns out that Internet access is a little harder to come by than I expected—to get a good signal, I need to go about six miles up the road, which means I need to borrow a car—but I'll still try to connect every day or two while I'm here.
Drive down was largely uneventful. I'm staying in a magnificent one-room suite on the top floor of a house on the beach; I'm really pleased. I was a bit worried when I found that the room has no door, but then I discovered that the stairway design acts as a sound baffle; I can barely hear people talking in the hallway one floor down, and I can't hear anything from two floors down even when thirty people are having dinner there. And I have a great view of the beach.
This morning, spent some time tossing a Foxtail back and forth with Jim M on the beach, and after I fell in the water I decided to go all the way into the water, so spent some time just standing/bobbing in the water, out just beyond the breakers. Really nice. Then did some juggling and lay in the sun for a bit. Later, read subs and napped and just relaxed. I think instead of going on all the big-group outings this week, I'm going to spend a lot of time in my room, and a lot of time on the beach, and a lot of time in small groups of friends. I'm going to try to have a relaxing vacation instead of a frenetic one. We'll see how it goes.
