Earth Day 2010
This is my best Earth Day, in like forever — especially since I don’t remember celebrating the previous 39 events. This ED was special … so special that a stranger walked into my hotel room this morning to share it with me. He woke me up after my all-night stint, cleaning soot from a library in Northern California. (Search “Dirty Gigs” on this site …)
Who was this dude? I don’t know. I checked at the front desk at the Holiday Inn Express here in Santa Cruz. I described him, and they set my mind at ease — assuring me that they DO NOT have a maid who matches his description. Ha … What a relief. Actually, to be truthful, I sort of want to know who the other dude is with free access to me and my valuables.
This helped. The hotel technician did a scan on my room lock with a little gizmo. It assured him, that no one with proper access credentials had been in the room. More good security feelings … LOL.
I joked and asked if the hotel was haunted, which of course, made the technician dude’s eyes light up — if not his gizmo. How very Hotel California!
Speaking of free access, the Wi-Fi here at Holiday Inn E is excellent and free. I have blogged and tweeted in my room, in the lobby and at/near the pool, without ever powering down or losing the signal. If only the door locks worked so well.
No one has used the Wi-Fi to break into my computer, yet, so I feel good about this. The coverage is good too, but a 2-point deduction because I have to enter the password (a nice touristy promotional “boardwalk”) every time I log in … well and because of the whole unscheduled wake up call thing.
Still harping on my uninvited guest … Now I know what it is like to be on the other end of such a transaction. Some of the readers of this blog will recall that near the beginning of my journey, I walked into my room in Vegas only to find some strangers making bad on top of my bedspread. Maybe that was Earth Day too. Hard to say.
Anyway … I am back on the clock for the Dirty Gigs part of my life tonight … all night … doing some disaster recovery magic to fund this blog. Don’t tell anyone, but I may do a little snooping around tonight to see if my book is in the library’s collection (NOLAN RYAN: The Authorized Pictorial History.)
Briefly today, I LOCKED my hotel room and hopped in the rental car, and headed south. By the way, the rental is so inappropriate for Earth Day. I love it … cruising along Half Moon Bay near Santa Cruz, listening to classic rock Doobie Brothers, and driving a Tony Soprano car — a long, black, four-door Mercury. I think the carbon footprint wears Italian wingtips. Nice.
Gullible
No more Wi-Fi to report for now. I am too fascinated with all of the cool little taquerias. Today’s treat, camarones quesodillas! Then in it was a 10-ft. walk into the gelato shop next door, where a sweet, cute little Asian college girl gave me cone.
I of course was clad in a PingWi-Fi t-shirt and I was so pleased that she liked the design. Yet, she didn’t realize the significance of the tree-hugger green fabric.
Oh the irony … that a travel blogger from Texas had to inform a Cali girl that it is Earth Day!
But, she got me. “Oh, I didn’t even realize. Every day is Earth Day here!”
So it is.
Know what I sayin?
