Standing in our front yard watching a half moon over the Western horizon, I remember wondering whether the crippled Apollo 13 Command Module would ever see splashdown.

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The bay sits at the base of a gorse and hawthorn-laden cliff valley, with a half-moon of white sand looking out over the water.

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Palo Alto Online reports that California highway 92, which starts at Half Moon Bay on the Pacific Coast and runs east over the Santa Cruz mountains, this morning was lined with hundreds of parked cars moved by coastal residents trying to keep their vehicles out of the way of any damaging waves.

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The route is simple: a straight out departure, staying left of the 101 freeway, past San Carlos Airport, past SFO airport, through South San Francisco, and into downtown San Francisco, over the Oakland Bay Bridge, past Alcatraz Island, over the Golden Gate Bridge, then south following the coastline to Half Moon Bay and back east to PAO.

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