#sleeplessflight

[srr82]

Sunny beginnings …. Enroute capital. #vistara #vistaraview #delhi #sunrisephotography #sunrise #iphone12 #windowseat #sleeplessflight #work #startupindia #itpo #travelphotography #photography https://www.instagram.com/p/ClV769gSv5of_laHsUUPfpW3NhjbQDKZD6-6z00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cheithaimax]

🇸🇬>🇲🇾>🇦🇪>🇬🇧 ✈️ 19hrs of Transits. And 4 Countries #SleeplessFlight #EtihadAirways #HolidayMood #姑侄俩 ＃伦敦 #travel (at Abu Dhabi Airport)

[ilikeyourteeshirt]

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?!?!

Also worth noting that this place only exists today because in 1914 a woman bought up the plots of land where the remaining pines stood so that the place could be kept in its natural state in perpetuity, rather than developers come along to build in it. Hooray for preservation!!