Carmel to San Simeon

I’m writing this note from the Sands Hotel in San Simeon, near Hearst Castle. We had a very nice drive down today,

Did You Hear

the one about the fellow who was hired to run electricity to the outhouses belonging to some Native Americans?

Yup, he was one of the first people to wire a

Playful Elk, RMNP

Don’t Argue

“If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you
won’t. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as
she bids you,