From his Pacific perch in Half Moon Bay, Calif.

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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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We were into open country now, running straight up the coast about a mile from the ocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in the sky and a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.

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Apollo 17, the last manned expedition to the Moon, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 19, 1972.

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It circled the moon and splashed down in the Pacific.

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In his version (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865, and its sequel, All Around the Moon, 1870), an aluminum craft launched from central Florida achieves a speed of 24, 500 miles per hour, circles the moon and splashes down in the Pacific.

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