Tag Archives: CA-1

A Coastal Vantage Point

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There’s an ache in the side and a kink in the neck, a twinge in the knee and a soreness that won’t escape me. My body feels decrepit, my mind strung out on a million different to-do lists. Physically I feel well past beat and … Read More

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Tick Tock

I’m standing on the edge and staring out at an endless possibility. The grandeur of one more endless daybreak. A vista that encompasses the sea and yet stands apart from it. It’s taken me such a long time to realize that ‘image really is everything’ … Read More

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On the Edge of the World

From writers block to riding the edge of the world, what a magnificent weekend. What a magnificent moment. ‘Channel this, channel this,” he says… I’ve spent the last three days riding and becoming one with the machine and evoking the best of whatever it is … Read More

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Cambria Clouds

The cloud cover hovers over the edge of the known world. Lonely lines intersecting as they unfold in big billows of damp whiteness. A cool chill runs across the face. You feel the warmth evaporate. You see it disappear. You wonder to yourself if you … Read More

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Lucid Revolutions

It’s a vibrant day in-between fall storms when I find myself standing before a saturated ocean and it’s hard charging sea. Beyond me lies one long ruffled sheet of blueness. The crisp squalls mercilessly battering the shoreline over and over. With force. And power. And … Read More

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The Vivid Vista

There’s a shake… And a shutter… And the slightest side to side maneuver… The engine hums, its bangs, it butts its head up against the limit… A sense of excitement and purpose and pure joy flows… The kind of overt outpouring that makes one take … Read More

The Monster on the PCH

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Shards of golden red light are spreading across the sky as a perfectly turquoise edge of an ocean barks with life. The waves crashing with such force it almost feels like there’s an earthquake looping on the house audio system. But there isn’t. Looking around, … Read More

Highway CA-1

76 Miles and Noth’n but Curves

I’m absolutely aching for the long slow drag I know I shouldn’t have when a single hand reaches out of the driver-side window from the car directly in front and waves me on. It’s not the sexiest way to pass someone or something but then … Read More