There and Back Again

Disposition: Busy
Listening: iTunes purchases
Reading: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Watching: Smallville: The Complete First Season
Obsessing: Sir Ian McKellen
Pondering: It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. (John Locke)

Every October, the City of Half Moon Bay hosts the Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival. Long after the festival though, the pumpkin patches, hayride, zoo petting and pony ride attractions are still bustling and worth visiting. Every year, my sisters and I try to go to shop for the perfect pumpkin and just bask in the autumn afternoon sun.

Half Moon Bay is the coolest coastal town in the Peninsula. Just minutes away from San Francisco, this beautiful city’s main attraction, in my opinion, is its rural feel and flavor. You see and experience it in every road sign, in each high school bus that drive by, in each invite for a hayride or corn maze and in every quaint little shop lining up downtown Main Street.

A few miles further Half Moon Bay is another coastal town called Pescadero where there’s nothing much to see but an endless stretch of the Pacific Ocean which is of course the main reason to visit. And then there’s Pigeon Point Light Station, which is as charming as the town itself. Pescadero is a nice place to soak up the sun and take in the vastness of the ocean and contemplate on its mystery.

So last Friday, my sisters and I did our annual visit to these two towns and we had fun just driving around, taking pictures of the view, of the pumpkins, and of the outline our shadows made on the sand. We ate a sinfully delicious wrap at the Half Moon Bay Coffee Company and capped the afternoon by buying what I think is the perfectly shaped pumpkin, which I will try and carve before Halloween using one of these Clark 2004 template designs.

And we did all these in the dead heat of an October afternoon that feels more like mid-summer than late fall. At the end of the day, we were tired but full of wonderful memories - with pictures to supplement - of an afternoon of fun, sun and sand.