California – Returning Home
The Last California Road Excerpt I have written four blogs on my “road” in California if you have been keeping up. This final patch of road in my retirement had a few more twists and turns, but ringing through this entire trip was a theme of peaceful rest. Jesus tells us in Matthew 11 to come to him when needing a reprieve from labors and burdens and he would give us rest; even a deep rest for the soul. That was this trip. Let’s get back on the road and catch that flight out of the Golden State. Departure Via the Coastal Highway Our time for departure had come at the cove in Northern California, and we rose early packed a few things, and then had breakfast in our room overlooking the morning surf. The tide seemed slightly higher and the “never gets old” big blue Pacific was churning once again below us extending west from the rugged dark gray and brown rocky cliffs and mini-islands of granite and sandstone orphaned from the shore. We settled up, checked out, and left the lovely confin