Weather was beautiful for walking today, so we ran up the Pacific coast a ways and strolled the beach for a couple hours. It’s nice, but not as nice as it may at first sound. Although we’ve walked only a few miles of the coast, we haven’t yet found a ten-foot stretch of it that wasn’t littered with truckloads of garbage. This is great for beachcombers who like to pick up a spare waterlogged television set, but if you want to wander along the sands contemplating life, it can be a bit distracting, and just forget about taking off your shoes.