Field of Lights

7:37PM

After returning to the hotel this afternoon, we had enough time to take a much-needed nap after our kayak tour and then get cleaned-up for our evening activity, Sensorio (aka "that Field of Light thingy") in Paso Robles. 

So, what exactly is Sensorio? A walk-through art installation just east of Paso Robles on the north side of CA-46, Sensorio is an array of solar-powered fiber-optic lights "planted" on the hillsides throughout the venue. At night the spheres are illuminated with changing colors. 

Redemption

Morro Rock

Given how our kayaking adventure in Hawaii turned out last summer, you might think that I would not pick up a paddle ever again. And yet, there we were at the marina in Morro Bay State Park at 9:00AM this morning, getting ready to embark on a half-day kayak tour with Central Coast Outdoors.

However, this time I was hopeful that our experience would be much better than the last one since the waters of Morro Bay are protected from the open ocean by a four-mile long sandspit. And I was assured that the sit-inside kayaks are much harder to tip over than the sit-on-top kind. 

Corona-cation

Life in the time of COVID...

It's been almost five months since that word became embedded in our vocabulary, along with "new normal" and "Zoom meeting". Within the span of a few days in mid-March, our family had completely "pivoted" by:

• Cancelling R's trip to Vegas with the guys for March Madness, M's spring break missions trip to Washington, DC, and J's and my trip to Illinois.
• Moving M out of his dorm at UCLA, with him finishing spring quarter of his sophomore year remotely from home.
• Finding out that the unplanned extension of J's spring break would morph into never returning to the high school and, sadly, a drive-thru graduation ceremony in place of the traditional pomp and circumstance.
• Working from home, although there are limits to the scientific experiments I can carry out from the kitchen table.