California

APRIL 1973

I went to California to study 3 months to be a Storekeeper. Storekeepers took care of the finances of ships and stations. I was good with numbers and Storekeeper's school was the place for me.

I learned from a California hitchhiker that because of a lot of rain the California hills were greener than they had been for years. It was a great introduction to California for me.

The Coast Guard station was several miles out of Peteluma in a very pretty area filled with rolling hills only a few miles from the Pacific Ocean. Peteluma was a cute little city that was so quaint that George Lucas chose Peteluma in which to film American Graffiti.

In 1973 California was still in the 60s. Hippies still remained, San Francisco's Haight Ashbury section was still alive but no longer the dream it once promised. And there were still hippie communes, one of which I will tell you about within the next blog or two.