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June 15
Walking was a bit of a mess first thing on Thursday, June 15. Our directions were wrong on our walking schedule, so I had to scramble and find an alternate route to get us back on track. Fortunately it all worked out.
Even with being as close to Los Angeles as we were, we still crossed through some farm fields and back roads today.
We took lunch on an Airforce base and watched the fighter jets fly in and out.
Our walk led us back onto our old friend the Pacific Coast Highway in the late afternoon.
And while the scenery was as spectacular as it was a few weeks before, it was still absolutely amazing.
In the evening we went to Patagonia for our Ventura program. It was attended by some 80 people and, as always, was very well received. The question and answer session that followed was a bit better than usual. Sometimes we speak and I think people are overwhelmed and don't have many questions because all of the info is so new to them. But, when we manage to find a group that has a bit of knowledge about Tibet, then we get into the real issues, which is always good.
Following the program, our walking group turned into more of a traveling circus. Some how someone managed to get a basketball stuck in the lighting system. As the rest of us threw the other balls up trying to knock that one down we, inevitably, got the other three stuck too.
So, slowly we started stacking tables and finding longer poles to knock them down with. Eventually this culminated in a stack of four tables with our photographer Jun Itoi on top, hanging precariously as he labored to get the last ball down.
We just as easily could have left that last one up there, but there was this survival-camp sort-of ambition brewing in all of us that kept us going. It was like that ball was a turkey, and if we didn't get it down we wouldn't have anything for dinner.
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