Santa Barbara

Ordinarily, I would wait to post so they aren't so  close together, but I have to tell you Santa Barbara is the most beautiful place I have seen!  One would probably have to have a really decent job to live there, however.  Another reason I am telling you this now, is I can feel the sadness creeping in, so I wanted to write about SB while I was still really up about it.  Actually, I am so up about it that if I had had money, I would not have left.  You know, sometimes reality sucks!  It was still beautiful, though, and the drive up was also beautiful.  You are on the highway in the mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean and it is breathtaking!!  I even saw some "amber waves of grain" after I left there while driving back to Reno.  Now you could say, I have seen America The Beautiful!!!  Talk to you soon.  Ricci