Somewhere overlooking the Pacific Ocean

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I took a drive up the coast for a few miles starting in Santa Monica, California.  I took a random turn up the hill, and wandered around a neighborhood a bit.  I walked up a strange outdoor staircase to nowhere, and took this photo.  I think it was probably Pacific Palisades that I was in.  I am pretty sure I wasn't as far up as Malibu.  This is one of those shots that I don't imagine anyone would ever want as a print, but hopefully you find it interesting! 1

Walnut Canyon National Monument

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Walnut Canyon National Monument On the way out of Flagstaff, Arizona, heading to the Meteor Crater, my friend and I saw a sign for Walnut Canyon National Monument.  It was not in our plans at all, and the sign was the first we had heard of it, but the word plans isn't really accurate for that day any way.  We were winging it.  I told her that I thought maybe I had been there in 1987 when I was 8 years old, and that I thought it had cliff dwellings.  She quickly looked it up on her phone, and it indeed had cliff dwellings, so we got excited and went.  When we got there, we found out that the trail that goes past the cliff dwellings directly was closed for renovations.  We got disappointed for a few minutes, then laughed at ourselves and realized it was like a Louis CK bit where he talks about how quickly the world owes someone who only knew something existed 30 seconds ago.   So we walked the rim trail, and I shot some pics, including this one, where you should be able to see a pathway going past the cliff dwellings.  It would have been neat to get closer, but it was still neat to see all the same.

 

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Ooh...aah...

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I shot this photo at Ooh Aah Point along the South Kaibab trail, about 600 vertical feet below the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  It was about a mile hike down switchbacks and a rocky trail, past lots of mule poop.  You can see in the photo where the trail continues to wind through the landscape. A friend and I spent the morning in the park, and we had a good time checking it out.  This spot was one of the nicest places that I've ever chilled out for a while and talked with a friend.  I didn't actually say ooh and aah out loud, but you are free to.  :)

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Felicity, California

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Felicity, California I left San Diego a few hours ago, and am almost to Arizona, where I will be for a few days, before returning to California.  I have been on the interstate, and it's frankly pretty repetitive and not very interesting.  This is the neatest thing I've seen in an hour or more.  But even this church doesn't have much else around it.  Lots of desert!

Center of the World Drive, Felicity, California

Sunset Cliffs - Wider Than Ever

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Sunset Cliffs, San Diego, California In late 2012 and early 2013, when I spent many months in San Diego, I took several shots from this location, underneath a cliff along the Pacific Ocean.  I always wished I could shoot it a bit wider, but I was maxed out.  Well, now I own a lens that I don't even think had been invented then, so I returned to shoot this photo.  I shot this while sitting in an indent in the wall, and shot it was wide as I could.  I think it gives a pretty fair perspective of what it's like to be there...and it think it looks darn cool too!

By the way, who out there remembers when I posted those photos a few years back?  If you remember, I'd love to hear from you...and I will say thank you for following along for so long.

 

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