#1. Café Marina... This is where I Take EVERYONE when they come to visit... At the Woodley Island Marina... Outdoor Tables Available and on A Clear Day You can See the Carson Mansion and the Waterfront... Expensive... But Worth IT!
https://goo.gl/maps/hGpkKAd9AVqGJ3LA6
Another Great Restaurant in Trinidad (just north of Eureka) ... Seascape Restaurant... This is also where I Take Friends and Family when they come to visit... When They are Paying...
https://goo.gl/maps/NENC49fG8tgGzZXK9
http://www.seascape-trinidad.com/
My Favorite American Food In Eureka, CA - This is Where We Go When We are Paying... The Village Pantry on Highway 101... A Large Amount of Food For Not a Lot of Money...
https://goo.gl/maps/ibcc6MPnNgT9GyBc6
They Have another Restaurant North of Arcata and We Go There Too... But on Google Maps, The Restaurant off Guintoli Lane at Valley West Blvd is Now Called Peppers!
https://goo.gl/maps/5MH3vpFWLTpUTR9X9
THE Place to Eat in Fortuna... Peppers on South Fortuna Blvd... American Food... Excellent Murals Indoors...
https://goo.gl/maps/QxPWumDLLDWzxSVXA
"Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan.
A Lifetime of Trial and Error Yielded These Words of Wisdom...
#1. For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own!
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| Intentionally Seek Beauty |
"Live Your Life as If Every Action Was Going to Be Published on the Front Page of the Newspaper." - J. D. Vanderlaan
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The Main Lesson Learned is Don't Smoke Tobacco. It Doesn't Really Get Me Very High and It Makes me Cough and Wheeze... I Smoked for 40 Years and Quit 5 Years ago. Glad I Shook That Addiction. I Started at Age 19 When I Found out That a Half and Half Blend of Marijuana and Tobacco got me Higher using less Weed. The Same Idea as "Hamburger Helper." - So I Always preferred Roll Your Own Cigarettes. Bugler or Top. and Then Later, when I Had Money... American Spirit... a Can cost $34 Dollars... 200+ Cigarettes... and I Often Stopped smoking after Half a Cigarette and saved the "Roach" for later... Unrolling it and Putting the Enhanced Tobacco Back in the Can. VERY STRONG TOBACCO near the Bottom of the Can... and I Did Experience Paranoid Schizophrenia... or as I Like to Call It: "Channeling My Inner Chewbacca." - Just a General Background Rage... and a Belief that The Government Was Spying on Me... Of Course, The Government IS Spying n Me But... They Just Don't Care... I'm Not That Much of a Threat... All That Faded Away After I Quit...
I Used FEAR to Help Me Quit. My Brother Got Lung Cancer and I Believe That Cancer Runs in Families. He Recovered. I was Afraid that I Had a High Risk of Getting Cancer Myself So... I Just Stopped... and Experienced the Pain of Withdrawal Symptoms for a Month... and Experienced the Desire for a Smoke for a Year...
On a Related Note: I Did Use Tobacco to Perform a Ceremony at Significant Locations. Just Like the Native Americans, I Have Always Smoked the Holy Places. To Certify Their Wisdom. For Example: The Park Bench overlooking the Mouth of the Mad River Where it Enters The Pacific Ocean. THAT'S A Worthy Place... ✌
and Then I Posted on Facebook: I really want other people to Submit Their Own Lessons... Either Comment Here, on the Bottom of the Blog or Email me gregvan (at) yahoo (dot) com
DSW Said:
I was trying to do that a few years ago...spent several months really enjoying just letting the memories flow and actually finding some answers to things once I started writing....and then my computer DIED with no warning and I give up. Sad.
I Replied: The Health of My Computer doesn't matter since I Write Everything on Facebook, Wordpress and Google Blogger... If This individual Laptop Fails... all my words are online...
DSW Said:
Anyway Greg, I do Understand. Ended up in the hospital last year for 2 months and had to go to a nursing home for a month before they would let me go home. they didn't want to. I had to beg. So during that process I ended up QUitting a 48 year smoking habit. Not much choice when you are hooked up to oxygen in the ICU.... It's been awful....My husband who I have been with since September of 1972 still smokes a bit and goes outside to do it and I can't go out there with him like we always did because I am afraid I will smoke again. I hate this.
I Replied: I felt the Craving fade away after a year of not smoking... and YES... a Year is a Long Time... Maybe two years... but I Don't have it NOW.
KD Said: I quit smoking 33 years ago and still have cravings. Giving up tobacco is tough.
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Secret Trick To Life: "Stop Believing Lies."
Owning a Gun Makes Your Own Family Less Safe
and Puts the Rest of Us in Danger.
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Multiple Rainbow Spirals form a Trance Inducing Icon. A Visual Mantra. You May Add Words if You Want To... The Name of Your Band or Business... or a Slogan... Manifesto...
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Often it Has Been to My Advantage to Listen to The Women in My Life and Act on Their Advice.
My First Ex-Wife Recommended That I Go To College and Study Electronics Drafting. After One Year I Was Able to Get a Great Job.
Then She Recommended That We Move from California to Washington DC So She Could Take a Government Job at The NSA... I Lived there for Twelve Years and Had Many Amazing Adventures...
My Brother's Wife Took Me to My First Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting and Eventually I Quit Drinking.
My Second Ex-Wife Recommended That I Go To College in Arcata, California. We Left Chico and Relocated. Four Years Later I Graduated With a BS Degree in Computers and Immediately Got a Great Job.
The One time I Was Took Advice That Was a Disaster Was My First Ex Wife Recommended That We Buy a Condominium in the Washington DC Suburbs as a "Starter Home." Her Plan Was to Live There and Sell it in a Couple Years and Then Use that Profit for a Down Payment on a Real House... That Plan Backfired and I was Unable to Sell the Condo after Paying on the Mortgage for Twelve Years. What Happened Was The Location Changed from a Middle Class Black Neighborhood into a Crack Crazy Ghetto... Everyone Lost Money on those Condos... READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/03/lessons-learned-by-gregory-vanderlaan.html
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