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it’s definitely autumn here now. it’s cold and rainy – but when it isn’t raining it’s really great. cold and crisp, like a proper Fall. I actually love it. I haven’t had weather like this forever. SoCal doesn’t really have seasons. it’s either summer or later that summer… it’s kind of nice. I woke up the other day not feeling too well, so i have been lying low this weekend trying to encourage whatever bug got to me, to go away. I got cabin fever yesterday though, and it wasn’t raining very hard, so i bundled up and went out for a walk.

View of the Long Walk from the monument

The walk i took was on a path i’ve been on before – it’s called the “Long Walk”  – that leads from the town centre to a monument. What i didn’t realize when i started was that the path is a straight line to Windsor castle. I don’t know how far it is – maybe a round trip of 3 miles. It is a fantastic walk. at one point you go through a gate and i was surprised to see at about 100 yards into that gate, some deer. But not just a few deer. At least a thousand (and this is not exaggerating). They weren’t too bothered by the people on the path – i’m sure they’re used to it. But there were even some good sized bucks. The biggest rack i saw was 7 points on each side.

It took me about 2 hours to get from end to end. I like doing things like this alone – good thing… i find that I am entertaining myself a fair amount of time so far. Anyway, the wind was blowing and the leaves are starting to turn and fall, so there were leaves blowing everywhere and it was just a really nice feeling to be out there enjoying it. It was on the verge of rain the whole time, but only sprinkled, so it ended up being just perfect.

Today was much less interesting. It was raining the entire day and i still don’t feel fabulous, so i just stayed in. I watched something like 4 movies. i started to feel guilty and a little stir crazy again, so I managed to do some laundry and it’s all hanging outside in the rain. lovely. That isn’t annoying or anything. Goodness knows when it’ll stop raining long enough to bring it in. oh well. something else to get used to i guess.

Well, not too much else interesting enough to share… just over three weeks left until i head out on my 5 weeks of traveling. Split apart, i’m looking forward to all the sub-trips that i have in there. I’ve got a holiday in Australia, weekend in LA, a week in Seattle for a trade show, then a few days in San Francisco, then the olive harvest and Thanksgiving at my parents. All good stuff. collectively though, i’m not looking forward to travelling, flying, hotels, etc. for that long.  i think i need to start mentally preparing now…