Ok, so friends and family who may see this...don't freak out! I didn't get a hotel room last night. I kinda always wanted to try that...you know just go somewhere and sleep wherever. Well, my wherever was my rental car. A 2011 Ford Focus. Which is actually really nice by the way. Never been one for Fords, but I'm impressed. Even if the automatic transmission seems a little quirky : o
Anyway! I didn't sleep much at night but got some good sleep out on the wharf at the boardwalk in Santa Cruz. It was actually not that bad. And when I got the chance to walk out on the beach it was pretty frickin incredible. The sunrise was beautiful and the gulls all around made quite the postcard scene.
I walked out onto the pier and there were sea lions down below! Now this is exciting for and east coaster who has only ever seen a seal lion in a zoo. I watched them for a while until a dock worker came over and shook a metal tape measure down at them to clear the platform. Those guys freaked out and rushed to jump in the water.
Later on I found a skate park. Keep in mind that this was a Thursday morning about 10-11am. And it was packed with skateboarders! A definite contrast to the park I was at yesterday that was empty. It struck me that skateboarders are really passionate. They had a whole wall with Polaroids of skaters who wrote a message about why they loved to skate. Words like "freedom" "alive" "expression" were all over the place. So despite the fact that any bulldog could skateboard better than me, I felt a certain kinship with those guys (and a few girls). This to me is what it is all about. Being passionate and letting it lead you. A lot of those skateboarders get it. In fact, Tony Hawk was one of the people interviewed in a new movie called, "Finding Joe."
Finding Joe
If you are really interested in getting a glimpse of what the hell I am doing. Watch this movie.
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