Now we escape New England and spend a day in San Diego's Balboa Park. This is the Mingei Museum.

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We made a stop here mainly to laugh, but came out with an appreciation of the culture that persists in believing that such things are still alive.

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There's a quotation from Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast that describes men getting sick when going up into the rigging for the first time.

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