Journey
A Personal Odyssey
Chapter One
HITTING THE WALL
It's June 26, 1993. The day is fading and so am I. Twilight is coming on,
"Magic Hour," they call it in movie jargon. My favorite time. On this seemingly
ordinary California summer evening all is quiet on Turquesa Lane in the Pacific
Palisades of West Los Angeles. Standing in the street, a cul-de-sac really,
everything appears to be normal, but of course that isn't true at all.
Everything is far from normal. I'm packing up my entire life and moving it far
from here.
Artwork has been carefully crated and loaded into a temperature-controlled
compartment right behind the driver's cab of a very large and very long semi
with all my plants squished in there too. Twenty years of a California life
packed up in just two days, and the moving men needed a second truck. Finally,
just an hour or so ago, the semi and its slightly smaller brother trundled up
Turquesa Lane and disappeared from view, already on the road, attempting to
beat the torturous high noon heat of the Arizona desert, with the final
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