Ghost Ranchby Tamara Adelman
When my surfer boyfriend broke up with me, my first thought was Now I don’t need to live by the coast anymore. I hadn’t been doing it for him in the first place but somehow felt I’d been staying for him. Everyone needs an escape route, and mine would include more land and fewer people.
Is it crazy that I might want to move to Santa Fe? I asked my therapist. Sometimes our truth surfaces after something big happens, she said.
I’d been living in Santa Monica for a dozen years, and there were people living under me and next to me. My view included rooftops, and a typical errand involved fighting traffic. Be careful what you wish for, I was told over the phone when I booked my trip to New Mexico by someone who had obviously lived with more land and fewer people f
