Distance: 8 km / 5 miles
Time Waited: 0.5 minutes
The Story: I quickly found one good soul leaving the glorious morning on the beach who was willing to take me to the main road (refer to previous post). The driver was in his late 40s and his female companion was probably around the same.
The driver was born in Geva Carmel, but moved to Colorado, where he still lives. His Hebrew was perfect, except for a slight American accent on the R's. But who am I to judge. When he found out I lived in Berkeley for 5 years and La Honda for 1, he had to share his own connection to the Bay Area.
He'd spent 6 months hitchhiking around California in the early 70s, and spoke of those times with much nostalgia. He also told me about his friend who still lives in SF, who had graduated from the Technion, married an American, and moved to the US, where he earned his Ph.D. in physics at Cal. For the last 24 years, he's been working on the Large Hadron Collider. The driver made sure that I realized that long before any of us ever heard of CERN, his friend was hard at work. Ooops.
The driver was born in Geva Carmel, but moved to Colorado, where he still lives. His Hebrew was perfect, except for a slight American accent on the R's. But who am I to judge. When he found out I lived in Berkeley for 5 years and La Honda for 1, he had to share his own connection to the Bay Area.
He'd spent 6 months hitchhiking around California in the early 70s, and spoke of those times with much nostalgia. He also told me about his friend who still lives in SF, who had graduated from the Technion, married an American, and moved to the US, where he earned his Ph.D. in physics at Cal. For the last 24 years, he's been working on the Large Hadron Collider. The driver made sure that I realized that long before any of us ever heard of CERN, his friend was hard at work. Ooops.
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