Cool Breeze,
Pretty People, Fruity Drinks
I don’t know why people rag on Southern Californians as
being aloof or in a bubble; that’s a bubble I would gladly join. The water is clear, the air is crisp, the
people are beautiful, and the drinks are plentiful. I have a great friend Kelly
Nicholas, who is yes, tan, and yes, gorgeous, who grew up in Laguna Beach. She always has a relax way about her in even
the most stressful of situations.
Running the beaches of Laguna, I can imagine that if the ocean air
flowed through your veins as a child, that any stress could be calmed by the sound
of gently crashing waves. I also have
never understood why people get irritated by pretty people. There are gorgeous people all around me; it
makes me want to run harder, take better care of my appearance, and generally be
better to my body. I would gladly be the
ugly duckling in the land of the beautiful, versus a swan in the land of the ugly.
I spent the first part of the day on a run in Laguna
Beach. As I made my way to Newport, I hazily
remember a very drunken fourth of July with Kelly, Jeremy, and Marcus where we
spent the entirety of the day drinking along the streets of Newport. I discovered Newport in a sober way today,
and I gladly enjoyed a delightful spinach salad and green juice, two doors down
from the marathon drinking bars of my past. I spent sunset at my new favorite beach, El
Matador, north of Malibu proper. I
unfortunately lost most my pictures from El Matador, so if you want to
experience it, you will have to visit yourself; it’s one of the best cliff
beaches I have been to in So Cal. I had
a great fish taco dinner at affordable Malibu Seafood. I backtracked to spend the night and morning
in Santa Monica; I walked along the boardwalk and got a much needed eyebrow wax
by a salon picked at random off the internet.
To my delightful surprise, the esthetician was an Aspen native and we
gossiped about locals.

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