Half Moon Bay

After our super busy weekend in San Francisco, Liz and I headed to Half Moon Bay for 3 nights. It was lovely. HMB is a very small town, with few people, restaurants and houses. The main town was right beside the ocean, which had a lovely bike path along the cliffs.

We checked in to a lovely inn that was ¾ of a mile from the beach by the Ritz Hotel. Liz and I spent our 3 days hiking through the redwoods, walking and reading beside the ocean at the Ritz, visiting light houses and biking on the cliffs by the sea. We were tempted to go swimming, but it was a little chilly. The weather wasn’t so lovely, mostly cloudy because of the high hills between us and San Jose that were holding the clouds in, but the last day there was beautiful with bright sunshine.

I found an award-winning sandwich shop that served the best sandwiches I’ve had on their own homemade bread. Yum! Just about every day I had one for lunch. We ate our meals at some great restaurants. One was an all organic eclectic restaurant that had everything from Egyptian to Russian foods. We had dinner at a chowder place, where I had Manhattan chowda’. It was excellent, and they had their own homemade soft serve ice cream too. And our last day, I had a crab melt. I was told the best things to eat in Half Moon Bay were the Chowder and the crab, and, boy, were they delicious! Liz and I had a really nice time. It was so good for me to get away for a bit. Even though I was on the phone and email for work every hour, it was still nice to take a break from the Kashi mobiles. Camille, my caterer went to Dallas for the week and asked me to take her car while she was gone. No problem. :)

I parted ways with Liz, and on my way back to pick up Camille at the airport, I stopped at the Avalon Yoga Studio for another anusara-inspired yoga class and my bi-weekly trip to fed ex to mail the passports that I collect at the festivals back to Kashi.

Once I arrived in Novato, I was happy to have my own room back and catch up on my sleep. Friday afternoon we cleaned the tents at a self-serve car wash and I did a site check. On my way back to the hotel for our weekly crew meeting I got some terrible news. Bank of America, the loan I’ve been depending on for my home in Cape Cod was declined. The underwriter contacted me via email to let me know that they only give loans for condos if under 20% of the properties within the condominium complex are rented out, and, in my case, 60 out of 69 are rented. That's way over 20%! I was distressed, given that I close in less than 3 weeks, and I’d already been working with Bank of America for a month and a half on this loan. Plus, my loan officer was aware of the situation and never said a thing. Plus, they had me sign a letter saying that I was not speaking with any other bank about this loan 2 weeks ago. Then the underwrited tells me on a Friday afternoon, so he didn’t have to get back to me until Monday. So frustrating! I spent the evening tossing and turning, trying to figure out what to do. The next day, I told Camille (my caterer) and she recommended Lending Tree. So, I applied Saturday, after finishing an 18 hour day, then waited and hoped.

As for the event, it was pretty slow and the people in Novato are very forward thinkers- already have many green bags, take yoga, cook healthy foods and eat tons of kashi. It was really nice for the crew to talk with such easy customers. People were very polite and there to take it easy. So, we had a pretty good event. We set up at 6am on Saturday and tore down on Sunday at 7pm. I am so happy to be finished with California this year. Just one step closer to the East Coast.

Off to Seattle, our last stop on the Pacific!