Eureka!

One of my favorite hobbies while traveling around the country is to visit various college towns, and take walking tour of college campuses, an atmosphere an environment where I feel quite at home. There are so many reasons for this, I'll have to write about it sometime, but for now we can just say that pretty girls make for a quite pleasant afternoon.

Last month when I was in Sonoma County, I naturally spent an afternoon walking around the campus of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park. One of the things I noticed was that the dorm buildings were named after varieties of wine grown in the area. Zinfandel Hall, for example, was one of the names I saw, I think. It was so funny to see this that I had to text a friend of mine about it on the spot. I seriously doubt that they would name a dorm building after anything alcoholic these days.

A few days later, after I'd driven up the coast and was in Eureka, I texted to the same friend that I was going to tour Humboldt State University in nearby Arcata. Anyone in California knows that Humboldt County is the marijuana-growing capital of California, and possibly the entire world. I joked in the text that I expected to dorm buildings named after varieties of pot: Sativa Hall, anyone?

Turns out I wasn't too far off the mark. Right after the election, after Colorado and Washington had fully legalized marijuana, I noticed this article about how Humboldt State was opening an institute for the study of marijuana cultivation.

I had also joked via text, as I arriving in Eureka, that I expected to see pot smoke billowing from the motel room doors as I walked. As it happened, this exactly what I experienced at the Motel 6 I mentioned in the last post.

But the Giants had just won the World Series. I guess that makes it cool.