Fifteen Years

 

Photo by A. Jones. Santa Monica, 4 Mar 2006.

Fifteen years ago last week we made the move to Santa Monica, California. I wrote about this for the tenth anniversary of our westward move in 2016. It's hard to believe the time has passed so quickly, and how much has changed. I think our pandemic year is making me feel the passage much more. We're two months into 2021 and almost a year since we went into COVID lockdowns. I'm missing my visits to LA and with colleagues very much. 

The photo above is one of the earliest I've been able to find from our first week in LA. It shows a view from the walking and bike path at Santa Monica Beach, which was right outside the front door of our temporary apartment before we moved into our home in April 2006. From Google Streetview, you can see our apartment as the peach building behind Cha Cha Chicken in the photo below. The front of the building looked toward Santa Monica Beach and the historic Hotel Casa del Mar.

Source: Google Streetview. Cha Cha Chicken & our 1st LA place.