The California We Could Afford
A childhood remembered through the places that cost little but meant everything: Hart Park, a robot slide in Saugus, the Moreton Bay fig tree, Lake Isabella, Morro Bay, Sequoia, Vasquez Rocks, fried burritos, Klieg lights, and family drives up the winding road to Castaways. Decades later, a return to California with my wife brought one of those childhood journeys full circle.