Gorgeous old friends!!!

A day at CARMEL "by the Sea"

To see- NONE OTHER THAN~ the VERY first FOREIGNERS I met when I moved to Japan in 1986!!!!  EIKO AND JOHN!!!! Allllll the way from Honolulu....

I got to see one of their boys with them, Jackson. Handsome, sweet young man that he is now! It'd been 12 years perhaps since Taka and I had visited their family in Honolulu.

Today they will drive Jackson to his University in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In Carmel is John's relative's home which they have helped to keep up~

"The Bark House"

If I remember correctly, a female architect designed this home back in the early 1900's.

Now it's an historic landmark. The best other info I could find so far was this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/from_linda_yvonne/2299130898/

"The bark house

Built in 1922, this unique cottage was conceived with the ocean spirit of Carmel summer days in mind. The facade of the house was made of redwood-bark boards.
The current owners maintain this exterior by retreiveing and storing fallen pieces from the forest sof nearby Big Sur"

Now back to getting Zen ready to move into an apartment in Monterey, only minutes from Carmel- for College!