On The Road (West Coast)

101 Reasons Why I love the West Coast

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#98 Riding my motorcycle while dodging cars and blasting heavy metal music through earphones will always be one of my favorite memories of LA. #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast #Biker (at Hollywood Hills)

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#98 Riding my motorcycle in LA while dodging cars and blasting heavy metal music through my earphones is always going to be one of my favorite memories. #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast (at Hollywood Hills)

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#97 The South Bay of LA #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast (at Hermosa Beach, CA)

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#98 Where the surfers ride the waves #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast (at Hermosa Beach, CA)

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at Hermosa Beach Pier

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We walked along the strand Look, our footprints in the sand Fought through the jungles of LA If I make it here, it'll stop the pain Go down to the South bay Watch the surfers ride the waves And down on Hollywood boulevard People are acting kind of strange But I've seen all the scenery Been in dark rooms with a genie If keep my eyes closed and dream I know this city will give in to me So how do you leave Los Angeles? How do you say goodbye, big city How do you leave Los Angeles? How do you say goodbye, bright lights How do you leave Los Angeles? When you know, it's almost your time #97 The South Bay surfers #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast #poetry #songwriting

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#96 Let's take a ride Down Mulholland drive So we can get alone And Talk about this thing you know And Your sweaty palms in mine You say your leaving this time And You ask if I'll come with you But I don't know what to do So I implore you, look at the lights Look above and down below Look at the city, Look at it glow Look at us, and the river we flow I say How do you leave Los Angeles? How do you say goodbye, big city? How do you leave Los Angeles? How do you say goodbye, bright lights How do you leave Los Angeles? When you know, it's almost your time #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast #LA #HowDoYouLeaveLosAngeles (at Hollywood Bowl Overlook)

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#90 The Angelenos: the people who make even the biggest city feel like home. Thanks for all the memories. #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast (at South Valley, Encino, California)

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#89 The little things that brighten the quotidian. "Lying out there like a killer in the sun, I know we can make it if we run, oh, oh, oh, thunder road, oh thunder road..." I see this little sign on my runs and it always makes me happy. #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast #MrBruceSpringsteen (at San Fernando Valley)

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#88 "Sometimes Darkness can show you the light"... Fiat Lux. #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast #Disturbed #lettherebelight (at Pinnacles National Park)

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#87 Olympic Mountains. Washington throwback as I'm going through my pictures. #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast (at Amanda Park, Washington)

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#86 Elephant Rock #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast (at Pinnacles National Park)

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#86 Elephant Rock #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast (at Pinnacles National Park)

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#85 Cathedral Rock #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast (at Pinnacles National Park)

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#84 Earthquakes. Violence. More beautiful violence. The Earth has been gutted here, in some ancient battle erupted. And then slowly moved along the San Andreas fault. Pinnacles is the proving ground of plate tectonics. It's awesome and beautiful. #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast (at Pinnacles National Park)

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#83 National Parks! "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." California has a bunch of NPs and I've now been to them all. This was the last one on my list. It's the newest, signed in by President Obama. It was amazing. #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast #johnmuir (at Pinnacles National Park)

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#82 Harvey Milk: If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. #101ReasonsILoveTheWestCoast (at Castro Street San Francisco City)