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While Saul and Ian tackled Paradise Valley , a long , arduous , but very rewarding ski trip , Nikki and Pam took Jake skating on Lake Louise . We lunched in sleepy La Honda , an old-world backwater just half an hour over the hills from the bustle of Silicon Valley , and went down to the beach to paddle in the " other " side of the Pacific Ocean . This was a real extravaganza , unsuitable for prudes and the faint-hearted , led by dykes on bikes ( five hundred female rockers on Harleys ) and followed by drag queens with enormous bosoms , fishnet stockings and high boots , ( male ) cheerleaders in sexy ( well , revealing anyway ) cheerleader costumes , jugglers , go-go dancers , a super-abundance of greased , muscular , near-naked young male bodies oozing blatant sexuality , aids victims ... no women ( once the Dykes had gone past ) - - well , no real women , anyway - - and precious few in the good-humoured crowd either . These activities are in collaboration with Michel Loots , a " humanitarian entrepreneur " from Belgium , who stayed with us for several days in March . Before Mysore , Ian attended a conference in Bangalore , the " air-conditioned city " and India 's Silicon Valley . We've sailed right alongside a replica of Captain Cook 's Endeavour : we were close-hauled and hard-pressed to keep up , which was disturbing until we noticed that , despite appearances , its square sails were aback and it was steaming along under a powerful , though anachronistic , engine .