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Article: Big Sur: Splendor and the grass
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 31, 1987
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BIG SUR, Calif. Hiking in Big Sur 20 years ago, a friend and I
happened upon an abandoned homestead 2,500 feet above the ocean. The
view of plunging coastline and the sun-glazed surface of the Pacific
was the most beautiful either of us had ever encountered. We toyed
with the notion of buying the place and living there, suspended
between reality and a blemishless sky, but, of course, we never did.
Later, we found comparable natural grandeur in places like
Italy's Amalfi Coast and the Canadian Arctic, but nothing burned in
memory like that day and that view.
I often wondered what became of the place. Perhaps the cabin
had been destroyed in the intervening years, by fire spilling over ...