[stylist] Romance and Appeal of faraway Places

[Debby Phillips]

Well, I love the West Coast, because I grew up here, but not 
southern California.  It's very expensive to live there, they 
have huge issues like not enough water for those pools in the 
poolside houses, people having to take 2 minute showers now 
because of the drought.  Also it's crowded, and the public 
transportation out here isn't as good as on the East Coast.  But 
then, I grew up in Oregon and when I was growing up there was 
quite a bit of antipathy toward California, still is.  Oregon 
used to be a common sense kind of state, but now it is so liberal 
(and I'm no tea partier, but ow don't even know the state I grew 
up in.

But I love walking in the rain when it's fairly warm, the smell 
of the air after a rainfall, the sound of the rain on my roof as 
I lay in bed with a book, a cup of coffee nearby.  I love the 
sound of the ocean, though wading in it in Oregon is an adventure 
in cold.  I grew up with loggers, people who made their living 
"in the woods".  Now all of that is changed-there are still 
loggers of course, but not as many.  Well, I have to go.  Time to 
get ready to catch the bus.     Debby