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Santa Cruz Visitor Decathlon

Firstly, good work to all those that correctly identified last post's interchallenge: Trees Of Mystery near Klamath, CA on highway 101. In all the times I've passed by it, I've still never paid the $13 to do the tour. Maybe someday...

We just finished with a wonderful (albeit way too short) visit to Santa Cruz. Although it may have been short, we still managed to complete 7(ish) of 10 of the Visitor's Decathlon events.

1. : a platform 72 feet up in a redwood at the top of a ridge overlooking the Monterrey Bay.
2. frisbee golf: we played 9 holes on the world renowned frolf course.*
3. roller coaster: the Giant Dipper is the 3rd oldest roller coaster in the US. It is wooden, it is historic, and it is awesome. *
4. Saturn Cafe: quirky vegetarian cafe. We ate there. It was delicious.
5. Malobar's or Dharma's: this is one we missed. We only had a few meals to eat out and this missed the cut.
6. pier and sea lions: .
7. surfing or watching surfers: this is the ish. The weather wasn't great so they weren't out in droves, and we had already stopped for a bit up highway 1 to watch the gnarl be shralped.
8. Tandem bike: missed it. Next time...
9. Mystery Spot: and thoroughly enjoyed this one*.
10. Adult gymnastics: had we had more than 48 hours in Santa Cruz, this is one we definitely would have liked to get in. Instead, we played some beach volleyball*.

I had so much fun on this decathlon, maybe I should consider looking into the Olympics...

Thursday April 9 2009

File under: travel, USA

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on Fri 10th Apr, 2009 01:46 am PDT Juline said:
What's this decathlon you speak of? Trees of Mystery...I lived in Trinidad for 20 years. Never did the tour.
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on Fri 10th Apr, 2009 11:00 am PDT steve said:
who is we jose?is she the one near babe the blue ox?
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on Tue 14th Apr, 2009 12:57 pm PDT Ryan Walters said:
Was the Mystery Spot really worth it? What the hell is it?
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on Tue 14th Apr, 2009 01:00 pm PDT Wren said:
Ryan, the Mystery Spot was worth it, provided you weren't expecting too much*. Basically, the place is a bunch of optical illusions, some of which are pretty dang good. It was a lot of fun and a great place to snap a few pictures. I'll have some more photos to post here soon.
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