Catalina Island, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"A man-made island, that place, a long finger of earth pointing at Catalina."

"And all of us had grown up with the story of the California Indians, those dipshit Chumash, who had rowed over to Catalina Island to gather shells and left a woman over there absentmindedly and didn’t get back to pick her up for over twenty years. “To see Catalina again.”"

"…the ones whose boats were out on the far side of Catalina when it came and hove to, sailing back out of pure curiosity."

"Unlike those expensive, staid, day-trip excursions to Catalina Island, the impromptu four-wheel birthday party cruise…"