After about thirty minutes we approached Neptune’s Nest. We pulled into the side parking because the entire front of the restaurant was taken up wit... motorcycles. Neptune's Nest was an old restaurant on the east side of the highway, directly across from Leo Carrillo beach. It was a tattered old place in serious need of a paint job but it was also a legendary hangout. Unbuckling our seat belts, I looked over at Ann and said, “I think your attire needs to be changed before we go in there with all. .. except for Greenland, Iceland and a scattered few Alpine ice accumulations ... all giving notice that the glacial period ain’t over.There are numberless places where tortured bedrock is folded, twisted, upended and shattered and in those places, mineralization has occurred. Quartz ... gold bearing Quartz ... solidifies in the cracks, splits and cavities of seismically active bedrock.Periods of flooding ... sea level was 400 feet lower than today at the beginning of the “Great Melt” ... moved. It shouldallow me enough time to word my wishes correctly and it won't takeDad's new wife away from him." What?" I gasped."It's really simple, Abby," smiled John, "although soon you will nolonger be my sister Abigail." John looked me squarely in the eye. "Iwish that the essence of your being that makes you totally unique untoyourself be swapped with the essence that makes my girlfriend CrystiThomas unique unto herself with both of you assuming the life of theother."I stared at John in. She saw John Phillips fear change to hope, grasping. She loved this."First, if you do what you are told, obey well, and learn your lessons, nothing bad will happen to you. Second, your wife has not left you. She will be here in two weeks to check on your progress. Right now, she is with Enrique on a cruise to Spain, during these difficult moments, but in her heart, I am sure she is here with you. And, John, when I said five years, I never said that you wouldn't be released earlier with good.