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Hippie Live in Beach Town Santa Cruz

Time was about to run out. For weeks, I just lived and traveled to the next city, whenever I felt like. But now my flight back home was getting closer and closer. Ten more days? Even less? And I was still in Oregon. So i took this looooooong bus ride down to Santa Cruz, CA. Clever as I am, I decided to take the over-night service and save me a whole day worth of traveling. It kind of worked out! As I was already used to buses and other annoyances, I could actually sleep several hours and got to Santa Cruz at 3pm next day. After a lot of changes and delays… Greyhound at it’s best.

I found a place at the house of Jasons former CS host. It’s an almost co-op house with 9 more or less frequently UCSC Students. I was picked up at the station, fed and taken care of. More than I could ask for. I spent the days exploring the city the evenings cooking and eating and the night partying. And the people here are good at partying. They don’t really make any difference on what day it is.

One day, I went to this amazing Farmers Market to get some veggies for dinner. After my hard time finding any good groceries on the east cost (still can’t understand how the people in the south can survive…) it was a delight seeing all these still dirty organic vegetables… Generally the west coast is big in organic food. There’s huge whole foods makets and other organic shops way bigger than we have them. (Well there’s also way bigger conventional groceries stores…)

On my last day in SC we went to UCSC campus, a huge forrest-y patch of land with several colleges. There are some great spots! So we hiked on narrow trails and over tree trunks until we reached the legendary tree nine. A tree that seemed to be grown just for hippie students to climb it! It used to be a great adventure, now it’s a little bit easier as someone installed a sting-ladder to get on the tree and you only have to get from branch to branch after. Apart of that, it’s still a great thing to climb up such a big tree, sit on one of the top branches and just enjoy the view, the bird sounds and the breeze.

After some picnic and visiting the “whish tree”, we went to get some adrenaline action at the swing. Check out the pics. It’s almost like free falling. Well, almost.

Oh yes, not to forget Santa Cruz also has a great beach live. Especially for surfers, there’s a lot of nice places. but it’s also fun, just walking or biking along the water front.

I bet there’s way more, but it’s been a while, since I was there, I only didn’t have the time to write it all down…
The Flickr Set for Santa Cruz