#sleeplessflight

I flew 12 hours from Auckland to Los Angeles and fueled on movies (Moonlight and Hidden Figures - both excellent) and TV (Atlanta - so well-written and funny…some true #blackexcellence on the screen), Beethoven, sparkling wine and no sleep, I rented a car and made my way to visit an old college friend, Johanna, who lives in Cardiff, a surf town a couple hours south of LA.

We talked for hours and drank a good amount of Pizza Port’s Chronic, an amber ale from one of many, many San Diego breweries. I was told there’s practically one on every corner!

I had such a typically healthy SoCal morning! Acai bowl for breakfast and a hike in the home of the rarest pine in North America, Torrey Pines State Park. These particular trees grow in what is essentially a desert, which is unnatural for a pine, but it’s ridged needles collect and condense dew and use that for hydration. Also, the needles come in bunches of 5, when usually pines clump 3-4!! They only exist in this scenic reserve and on one island a hundred miles away. What the what, evolution?!?!