Today Annemarie and I took Scenic Road from Moonstone Beach to Trinidad. It’s a short but beautiful drive, if a bit harrowing at times. Much of the road is one lane and unpaved. In several spots you can see where there have been slips from the hillside above and the road randomly rises and falls, I’m assuming from earlier erosion. I’m sure every time there is a big storm the locals hold their collective breathes to see if the road is still passable. Luckily we went on a dry and somewhat sunny day. The views were magnificent and the road was not busy.
Later after I dropped Annemarie off at a friend’s house I went back to explore a bit more. I found a couple of short trails and scrambled down to one of the beaches. Getting to that beach was an adventure, the last part entailed climbing down a steep ladder made of large wooden logs. Whew! I found out later it was the local nude beach, which explained the naked guy walking on the other side of the beach when I arrived. He soon got dressed and left and I had the beach to myself. The sun played peekaboo with the clouds while I collected rocks, watched a pelican look for lunch and read my book.
I just started reading Our Hidden Conversations, What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity, by Michele Norris. It’s a fascinating and enlightening book that is also at times depressing, frustrating, inspiring and so much more. Besides insightful research and personal narratives that are heartbreaking and hopeful, there are hundreds of 6 word stories about race collected from every corner of the country. Some have extra information to provide context but most do not. It’s incredible how much 6 words can convey. Right now I’m only on the second chapter. There is a very lengthy prologue and introduction, often I skip those sections of non-fiction books because they tend to be boring, these were anything but. I can’t wait to dive deeper into the book.
The night after I dropped Annemarie at another friend’s place I stopped at Samoa beach to watch the sunset. There was a heavy fog layer further off the coast, which made for a very dramatic pre-sunset.
