My friend Nancy who I was cat-sitting for recently, had a decorative starfish lying on her coffee table. Realizing I had not been to the ocean in months, and also knowing I had a free Sunday coming up, I decided that I would have my next beach day. I always drive to either San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, or somewhere else South on Hwy 1, but this time I wanted to go to a beach I’d never been to before. I wanted to curl up in a coffee shop and stare at the ocean. Did that mean I would have to go back to the Chit Chat Café in Pacifica? Surely, there must be another beach, I thought. Rachel, another friend of mine, suggested I head north to the Pt. Reyes area
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