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+After Halloween we made our way south, ducking inland and around the Lost Coast, down to Fort Bragg where we finally, for a few days at least got some sunshine. Not that it was warm mind you, but at least we saw the sun for two days in a row.
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+I never wrote about it here, but Corrinne and I visited this area about a decade ago and went to a little, out of the way, somewhat inaccesible beach called Glass Beach. The name refered to the fact that the entire shoreline was glass shards, the soft, sea-polished variety some people call seaglass. If I remember correctly it was there because there used to be a wrecking yard or a garbage dump or some combination of those things on the bluff above. At the time, 2009 , the glass was several feet deep and covered from the low tide line well up past high tide. It looked like this:
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+Today it is all gone. People came and carted it home in buckets. We read about the loss of glass beach on the internet, but I confess I didn't really believe it until I saw it. It really is gone. I even saw two people trying to fill a bucket with the tiny amount of glass that still remains here and there. I have no idea what people do with a bucket of seaglass, presumably it all sits in garages and dens around the country, forgotten. Somehow, to me, this perfectly encapsulates America today: steal what's everyone's for yourself and then never even use it. 
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-07_130047_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-976" class="picwide caption" />
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+At least there were still tidepools to explore. There wasn't much life in them, but give a kid some puddles and rocks and they'll be occupied for hours.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-07_132503_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-977" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-07_132541-fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-978" class="picwide" />
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+Because it's Northern California in the Autumn the rain inevitably returned. People always ask, what do you do when it rains? Answer: we get wet. If you look closely at the left edge of the image below there's a deer, also getting wet.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-09_103203_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-979" class="picwide" />
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+Fort Bragg also turned out to be home to the third Travco we've run across in our travels. This one, sadly, is unlikely to ever move again.
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