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The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats... Reviews... I've Been To All Five... Many Times!

#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

View of the Carson Mansion from Woodley Island Marina


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/

Underwater Fantasy - Tropical Fish in Paradise by gvan42


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

mural-inside-Peppers-Restaurant-Fortuna-CA

"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!

Orange Rose at Home
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."
GUNS DO NOT SAVE LIVES - reality - meme - gvan42


Owning a Gun Makes Your Own Family Less Safe
and Puts the Rest of Us in Danger.

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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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Duane Flatmo Murals in Eureka, California - As they were being Painted - and the Kinetic Sculpture Race - An Art Tourists Delight!




Co-Op Grocery Store. While the mural is being painted...



Pierson's Hardware Store








Kinetic Sculpture Race


Lost Coast Dogs.
The No Parking Sign has been MODIFIED...
No BARKING allowed.


Arkley Center for the performing Arts.


Pencil Sketch on CO-OP mural as it is being painted.
Official Website: http://www.duaneflatmo.com/







Bucksport was his first Mural.




Completed Arkley Center.

Kinetic Sculpture Race. Free Fun for the whole family. Memorial Day Weekend in Arcata, Eureka and Ferndale, CA... Come visit Beautiful Humboldt County California

Three days of travel by Whimsical Art Bicycles over Land, Sea and Sand. The racers stop at the Manila Cultural Center on Saturday about 1 PM to change tires in order to travel on the beach and thru Sand Dunes. There is live Music, beverages, food and Kiddie rides... FUN.

Hippypotamus Kinetic Sculpture


Sailfish Kinetic Sculpture



Starwheel Kinetic Sculpture









Duane Flatmo Installing Sand Tires
for travel on the Beach and thru Sand Dunes.

Cute Dog and Dragon.

Tiki-Bar



Elephant known as Melvin.
Judge in Top Hat.



Live Music at Manila Cultural Center

IMHO: The best place to see the Kinetic Sculpture Race is at the Manila Community Center on Saturday at about 1 PM. They have live music, beverages, food, bathrooms and Kiddee rides... On Eureka's North Jetty Peninsula near Samoa Cookhouse. The Sculptures all stop there and change tires to prepare for traveling on the beach... and down DEAD MANS DROP... a very steep sand dune.

Fan with Hula Hoop at Manila.

Fans Strutting... One Man Giraffe Mobile.

Official Website: http://www.kineticgrandchampionship.com/

Kinetic Sculpture Race in the Humboldt Bay... Eureka, CA


Madaket Ferry - Kinetic Sculpture Race















The Carson Mansion, Eureka as viewed thru a Stained Glass Window on the front porch of the Pink Lady House.



The Pink Lady House in Eureka, CA


Silverfish by Duane Flatmo will evolve to become a Fire Breathing Dragon

and there are Many Many Many More murals Painted by Many Other Artists in Eureka... It's a Magic Town... <--- Link to More Pictures!

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THE UMMAGUMMA OF CAMBRIDGE [fiction] - a story by Gregory Vanderlaan



When the aliens found out that their spaceship was infested with Ummagumma they stopped at the first planet (eARTh) and dumped them. The place was called Stonehenge. The Ummagumma are an annoying life form that supports themselves by petty thievery. They were first reported in Dickens books...you know... Oliver Twist...Pickpockets...They also have an annoying habit of taking things apart and not putting them back. Have you ever noticed that for some unknown reason things just "go on the blink" ? That's the work of the Ummagumma. For centuries they lived in the swamps near Oxford (Cambridge, England - the land of Eng) but one day they walked down to the docks and snuck aboard a boat. When the captain found out that his boat was infested with Ummagumma he stopped in the first port and dumped them. He threw them right overboard and into the San Francisco bay. They swam to shore and quickly blended into the population. You see, they are short and brown and could be mistaken for Chinamen...............................Stay tuned... next time they disassemble Sutro tower in a futile attempt to "call an intergalactic taxi". ............................And then they wander down the coast and climb... Mount UMUNHUM... The giant box on the mountain overlooking the city of Saint Joe. ...................................................The Ummagumma always stowaway and they just had to get off the planet eARTh. This planet's just too boring. Got to get back to the Swinging Planets in the Crab Nebula...That's where all the Fun Is. and so, gentle reader Ta Ta For Now...




Idea by Arthur C Clarke - Book "Sunstorm"
Instead of Complaining about Global Warming,
Why Knot Actually Do Something?
Ya Think?


On FaceBorg SE Said:

Right-wingers are constantly screaming that CA has been "ruined" by our Democratic politicians, but they never explain why all of the tech companies want to be located here, and why we can't build housing fast enough to keep up with the demand of people who want to live here in this "ruined" state. Lately they want to blame Democrats for inflation and high gas prices, and there is nothing any Democratic politician can do which would ever be good enough for the right-wingers. Recently, our governor has issued a rebate to help CA citizens out with the high cost of gas and other products. Whenever I've seen the rebate mentioned in a discussion on Facebook, it gets met with a bunch of 'laugh' reactions from right-wingers.
So they want to ridicule our state, and they want to spread false information about inflation somehow being the fault of Democratic politicians...but when a Democratic politician decides to give out a rebate to assist with those higher prices, they treat it like some sort of joke. What is it that the right-wingers WANT?!?! I know, I know, they want to get rid of all Democratic politicians and voters. But since that isn't possible, why don't they appreciate when politicians (from either party) actually do something to HELP? I haven't heard of any Republican politicians doing anything to help us out with the higher prices! All they want to do is sit around and blame the Democrats, but they don't offer any solutions. And when a Democrat offers immediate assistance like a rebate, they act like it's a joke, but of course they're more than happy to take their own rebate to the bank. But since it came from a Democrat, it's a joke. Republican politicians have not offered any actual solutions, so why are right-wingers always so angry at Democratic politicians when they DO offer actual solutions?
WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE WANT?!?
I know the right-wingers on my feed won't explain, because they never do. They don't know why they hate Democrats so much that they won't acknowledge when a Democrat does something positive. They just do. But if you ever ask for an explanation, they won't offer one because they don't understand it either. I want to hear an actual SOLUTION coming from a Republican, not just anger and blame directed at liberals. For just a minute, let go of your hatred of liberals and explain what it is that YOU think should be done about the problem. And explain why it's such a joke that our governor gave out rebates. To me, that seems like a direct attempt to help, so why aren't right-wingers grateful?

It's interesting when people on the right make comments like, "The left is obsessed with Trump" or "The left can't stop talking about Trump." Of course, they never, ever acknowledge the reasons WHY we need to talk about Trump. Trump is the first president who refused to concede that he lost an election, and instead of the peaceful transfer of power, he rallied his supporters to stage a coup to try to seize power. That was almost 2 years ago, but now he still insists that he actually won the election, and he shows no remorse for his actions on January 6th. Then later, classified documents which did not belong to him were found at Mar-a-Lago, and he refused to return those documents, so the FBI had to go in and get the documents. These things have NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE with any other former president. Is it really so weird that "the left" would talk about these incidents?? It's not as if people are just sitting around talking about him for no reason. He has done things - and continues to do things - which can't be ignored because they are so egregious. How is it possible that anyone does not understand that?
We don't really have any reason to talk about Obama anymore. We don't really have any reason to talk about Bush anymore. The reason is because Obama and Bush have never broken any laws or threatened our democracy in any way. If either Obama or Bush had done the things Trump did, we WOULD talk about them. If a former US president threatens our democracy, of COURSE it should be talked about. Until Trump is finally held accountable for his actions, I hope everyone continues to talk about those actions.


So I Replied:

Trumps Top 10 Failures: Like and Share these Facts Worldwide! We Must Beat Trump in 2024... and Exterminate the Republicriminal Party Forever!

#1 Over a Million Americans Died of COVID-19. It was NOT a "Democratic Hoax" Like Trump Said.

#2 Trump Lost The 2020 Election to Joe Biden. That's Why Trump Lives in Mar-A-Loser and Biden Lives in the White House.

#3 Trump Failed to Overthrow the US Government and Crown Himself King on January 6th. Over a Thousand Trumpanzees Have been Arrested... Including Trump Himself!

#4 Trump's Trade War With China. That Harmed American Farmers, Manufacturing Businesses and Consumers. Russia Benefited by Selling Soybeans to China.

#5 Trump Failed to Build the Wall and Have Mexico Pay for it... It's Incomplete and People Simply Walk Around the End...

#6 Trump Failed to Repeal and Replace Obamacare... He Had No Plan "Trumpcare" - He Just wanted to Harm Americans...

#7 Trump Failed to Change the Course of a Hurricane Using a Sharpie Felt Pen... Causing "Sharpiegate" and Many Joke Memes!

#8 Largest Loss of Money on the Stock Market in History.

#9 Massive Unemployment

#10 Huge Lines of Americans Waiting for FREE FOOD because they Could Not Buy Their Own Groceries...



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