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June 06, 2005
Obsession?
Yes, "Yet Another Gratuitous Graphical Plug of Rancho Cordova"... The sign with the words "Rancho Cordova" that always "affects" me is the first sign you see with an RC mileage headed eastbound on 50, I think on the 48th St. or 51st St. overpass.
It's bugged me since I was a kid returning home from Land Park and Yuba City visitations. Don't always pay attention, but especially after a long trip, it marks some kind of threshold, kind of like seeing the "Sacramento" mileage on a sign in Weed, CA. A subtle feeling sometimes comes over one, that those words mean home, for better or worse, it's home, not just another waypoint, but a beginning and endpoint.
The sense of really being home hits when coming over the rise after Watt, but before Mayhew overpass. The CCC Cross/Nike Missle Silo always serves as a visual cue that you're home, contradictions and all.
Posted by cystdog at June 6, 2005 06:14 AM
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