Every year, my family would camp at nearby Mt. Madonna County Park. We kids looked forward with glee to the day our parents would gather all the cousins together for a trip to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. My favorite rides were always the Cave Train and the Ferris Wheel. I was always filled with some dread and excitement about the Log Flume. Once, as a kid I begged the attendants at the top to take me off before the drop. They just laughed. My mother lost her sunglasses going down the flume once.
I loved going on the Ferris Wheel, just me and my Daddy, because it was our special time together, where we could look at the redwood mountains in the distance. Whenever I hear the song, “Under the Boardwalk,” I think of Santa Cruz and smile.
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