Thanks, Chantyranger, for the kind words about my musical arrangement for "Shanghai Passage." But folks should also listen to Danny Macleod's version as well, and at least credit Danny with inttroducing the rest of us to C. Fox Smith's wonderful poems.

Some day soon I'm going up to Victoria to nose around where she used to work (no one quite knows what she was working at for she wasn't financially independent) in the early 1900's and listen to the stories of the old shipkeepers.

Today we lunched at San Juan Bautista, which may not have changed that much from when Dana last visited before writing TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. Yum!!!

Off to lunch at Big Sur tomorrow. Haven't been there since 1965.

Cheerily,