Where the Break Room Author Works

Monterey Area's geographic jurisdiction is from the northern-most edge of Monterey County all the way down to the Soledad River bridge on Hwy 101, and ALL of the coastline on State Route 1 from Watsonville to the San Luis Obispo county line. This includes the beautiful (and sometimes deadly) Big Sur coast. Far too many folks have over-estimated their ability to drive that highway and gone over the side....

My Communications Center is a separate building next to the Monterey Area Office. We're in rural surroundings right off State Route 68, just outside the Salinas city limits. About 18 miles to the west of us is the Monterey Peninsula.

We're slated for a new facility to be built in 2002, further inside the city limits. We could certainly USE a new Comm Center, since this one is small and cramped, but I'll miss the sounds of red winged black-birds warbling outside our back door. And instead of cows mooing to each other from the rollng hills nearby, we'll just hear traffic noise from the freeway.

Progress is progress, after all, right?

And would you like to know what the weather is like outside my window right now?

Speaking of "windows," on July 22nd, 1997, we installed honest-to-god, real windows TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD at my Center! Want a glimpse of that process?