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To: SilentZ who wrote (85866)	3/15/2003 1:58:06 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi zofsilence; Santa Cruz in April will give you a hint of what awaits you in heaven. Before you go, just to get yourself into the mood for a voyage to a strange and distant land, pick up a copy of Dana's Two Years Before the Mast. Here's a link: search.barnesandnoble.com Or read it for free on line, and here's a taste: ... The change from the tight dress coat, silk cap and kid gloves of an undergraduate at Cambridge, to the loose duck trowsers, checked shirt and tarpaulin hat of a sailor, though somewhat of a transformation, was soon made, and I supposed that I should pass very well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Neptune himself, I was, no doubt, known for a landsman by every one on board as soon as I hove in sight. A sailor has a peculiar cut to his clothes, and a way of wearing them which a green hand can never get. The trowsers, tight round the hips, and thence hanging long and loose round the feet, a superabundance of checked shirt, a low-crowned, well varnished black hat, worn on the back of the head, with half a fathom of black ribbon hanging over the left eye, and a peculiar tie to the black silk neckerchief, with sundry other minutiae, are signs, the want of which betray the beginner, at once. Besides the points in my dress which were out of the way, doubtless my complexion and hands were enough to distinguish me from the regular salt, who, with a sunburnt cheek, wide step, and rolling gait, swings his bronzed and toughened hands athwartships, half open, as though just ready to grasp a rope. ... underthesun.cc There's a lot of California that has been "californicated", but the years have matured Santa Cruz more gracefully. Dana will give you an idea of what it once was like. -- Carl