Angela Hamilton
Oh September, I’m so glad you’re here. Even though it’s 90 degrees in Los Angeles, you will always be hot lattes and cinnamon spice and infinity scarves and falling leaves. I’m going to make it a point to seek all that out this season, no matter what.
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What a quiet evening spent in your favorite city looks like: pastel sky, headlights, the slight blur of twilight, as much water as concrete. Growth emerging from quiet corners. Streets surprisingly un-trafficked. Blinds being pulled across bay windows. A light sweater and sandals and denim.
Fear is a funny thing. It envelops you at once, holds you tight, then lets you go as quickly as it came. Anxiousness, which can come before fear or even without, has a steady hold on your wrist. Generally not enough to completely stop you from going about your day. But just enough to make it hard to pick up and put things together, to get places. Sometimes, the anxiousness is worse, or rather, more affective, than the fear because like a bandage, the fear will be ripped off and discarded. Anxiety of fear is really a double threat, because you spend all this time anxiously awaiting the fear of the experience.
If you haven’t taken a trip up or down the coast of California in your life time, you need to put it on your list. While you’re there Oregon + Washington will only make your trip more beautiful. I’ve been along the West Coast a couple times in my life, and each time it’s captivated me to the point that whenever I have a chance to plan a trip, it’s somewhere toward the Pacific. There’s so much to see, and on our most recent four-day adventure, we traveled from Santa Barbara to Big Sur, then to Monterey, Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay, and San Francisco. It’s a short stretch of coastline that’s new and vibrant at every stop. I’ve had a love affair with San Francisco ever since I was little and my twenty four hours there was one of the best moments of 2014. Time to finally share…
We drove in after a relaxing, but so so stormy, night in Half Moon Bay. The sun was shining and I jumped out of the car, ready to climb the hills of the city!
The entire trip, Kevin and I experimented with my new iPhone, meaning lots of shoddy panoramas. But at least it let me capture the length of some buildings.
We stayed near Fisherman’s Wharf and walked around cold and a little tired from exploring. Then the next day it was all about sightseeing. I’ve done touristy things in SF before, and for me the must-do is taking all of the city’s beautiful Victorians in.
I know you never really know a place until you live there and it’s a dream of mine to get a little closer one day. Maybe by way of a house as pretty as the Painted Ladies. I bet they never open the windows because their facades are photographed so much…
Here’s to hoping there’s another San Francisco trip in 2015!
Have you been? Please share!
