We are fortunate to have avoided the air quality impacts this far south (north coastal San Diego County), but my brother's extended family lives in and around the greater Santa Rosa area. One set of inlaws lost their home and their mom-and-pop auto body shop two years ago, and now it seems like bad air quality has become an annual ritual up there.
I was also sad to see some of my favorite old cycling roads in the Malibu hills, as well as the old M*A*S*H TV series set (I knew Harry Morgan pretty well during his Col. Potter years), right in the middle of this year's fire.
This all brought back memories of 1961, when fire burned across Bel Air, Brentwood, and Pacific Palisades. Many of my school friends lost their homes, and ours got filled with mud during the rains that followed.
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069