My earliest memory of this is as a 3year old growing up in Marin County and driving to Strawberry Village, near Mill Valley, to go shopping. We had to drive because there sure as heck wasn't anywhere to shop in our little sleeper town of Novato!
What I remember most about that drive is the approach to the Richmond Bridge, one of the last exits before leaving San Rafael, and how my excitement would build the closer we got to the turn off. I'd cross my fingers and my inside voice would say over and over in my head, "take the exit, accidentally take the exit, take the exit!" Sometimes my magic spell would work and we actually would take the exit!
Are you asking yourself why on earth a 3 year old would want to go to Richmond? The answer is, I could have cared less if it was Richmond, or Timbuktu. My adrenalin would pump through my racing heart because it held the possibility of adventure in the unknown, and I really, really, really had to explore!
I've had this happen all my life, maybe it was a tree on a hillside that called to me, or palm trees swaying against a deep blue sky, they all beckoned...come see us, come find out what you can by being over here...see how it's different than being over there...
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