SUBURBIA – September 8, 2026

I'm writing from Suburbia today. Tomorrow we leave for a larger suburban area - Orange County - where I grew up. We'll travel in Optimus Prime* through California's Central Valley farm land, over the Grape Vine, through metropolitan Los Angeles, and into the City of Orange where we reserved an rv site near Disneyland for five nights. The purpose of the trip is to meet up with my old classmates. I'll see how much they have changed, and how much they haven't, after fifty-five years. I'll share memories; I'll tell stories; but mostly, I'll just listen and observe. I'll visit [...]