In May’s Men’s Journal, I have a one-pager
about Big Sur in the wake of last year’s wildfires. In the piece, I
write about an awesome collection of yurts overlooking the Pacific ocean called Treebones. My wife and I hung out in Big Sur for this piece in November ‘08, on the weekend that Santa Barbara's Montecito area lit up like a roman candle, and
on which there were crazy winds that shook us, and a fair amount of our camping
friends in Ojai and beyond, all night long. Why Lina and I continually end up in oceanfront
mountains during wildfires and windstorms is beyond me. That said, we’d been to
Treebones before, and we’ll return. There’s nothing like it, and it’s only perhaps
too rustic for the Woody Allen wannabe who can’t hold down his lunch west of the Mississippi. But
if you want a little supplement to the MJ piece, I thought that I’d post some of a long and bewitchingly cool interview with Treebones’s unusually decent founder, John Handy, a recently
indoctrinated volunteer fireman and green-building pioneer who used to work as
a toy executive down in super-serious LA, eventually decided to leave the so-called grid, and now owns a Big White Tanker and
lives in Henry Miller’s woods, where it’s nice and natural, and no one wants to
stick you with dirty needles for your change from the Korean fried chicken
place. Here, if you haven't opened the PDF yet is the Q&A. For more about traveling to Big Sur, here's the MJ piece, which is also available on their Web site. --AB
