I'm staying at the first house that I ever lived in, where I spent the first 17 years of my life (with some interruptions).
I'll not provide much narrative. Here are some pictures, with a few comments. I had put these pictures on facebook too.
This is the house. It has changed a lot, but it's still the same house. Peggy and Latif live there now.
![picture picture](https://generalsemiotics.net/img/2018/201808/astreet.jpg)
This is the park 2 blocks from the house, where I went an infinite number of times as a child.
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This is my high school, where I graduated in 1983. Children are still suffering there now, I imagine.
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This is me with Peggy, my de facto godmother and once-upon-a-time 6th grade teacher.
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This is Arthur sitting by the window in the dining room, in a spot he sat many times during my childhood. It's strange – all the furniture has changed, the house has been remodeled, but the space still feels the same, and the Humboldt overcast waits outside.
![picture picture](https://generalsemiotics.net/img/2018/201808/artwindow.jpg)
No visit to Arcata is complete without a trip to the Arcata Co-op – the biomagnetic center of the People's Republic of Humboldt.
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This is a view from the street of the house on L Street in Eureka, where my dad and stepmom lived during my high school and college years.
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This is the Helliwell's house, where David and Vivian live. David was very generous with me (in spirit) during the early 1990s, and I spent some time here.
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A salmon we prepared for dinner – David is a fisherman and has ways to get fish.
![picture picture](https://generalsemiotics.net/img/2018/201808/bigfish.jpg)
This is David with his dog, on a redwood stump of a newly cut tree. He is logging some of his land up behind Eureka.
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Here is a broken-down excavator (cat) parked where some of the logging is going on.
![picture picture](https://generalsemiotics.net/img/2018/201808/deadcat.jpg)
Arthur brought in the big fish from the barbecue.
![picture picture](https://generalsemiotics.net/img/2018/201808/artfish.jpg)
We ate the fish. Here are the Helliwell siblings (center two, David and Peggy's kids), Erilynn and Dustin, with their spouses, eating dinner.
![picture picture](https://generalsemiotics.net/img/2018/201808/sibs.jpg)
That's my visit to Humboldt so far.
[daily log: walking, 5km]