Category: Travel
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Why beach towns are like refuges | Santa Monica edition
When life gets so frustrating you realize you’re walking around clenching your fists for parts of the day, nothing quite washes it away like a day with the ocean. When I hear the crashing of it’s waves I can feel myself pounding the sand. The ocean is so patient. It slowly builds. Pushing itself as…
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I met a woman on a plane
She fumbled with her seat belt. Nervously mashing one piece of the buckle into the other, shaking so vigorously it could have been mistaken for a poor joke. She finally clicked the metallic pieces in. Airline belts are like the dodo bird, unusual in nature and generally useless. Still shaking, she shifted in her tiny,…
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Things you’ll learn during an excursion
1) Always check to make sure the places you want to go are open. I like being spontaneous. But I’m also impatient and I devastate easily. Biking my heart out to find a locked gate isn’t as much fun. But it was a good lesson to learn. 2) Sometimes things look soft and harmless but they…
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The people and city of Los Angeles
This past weekend I was in Los Angeles cheering on a great man in the LA Marathon. To see blubbering photos of said man go here. We biked around a lot of downtown Los Angeles. It made me miss home. There’s just something about a big city that makes me deeply happy.
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Walking with Orbison part three
The leaves finally changed. This was actually at the Arboretum in Houston but I felt like it set the mood of this walk with Orbison. It also finally rained. It’s been raining all week. Orbison hates showers. He acts like I’m trying to stick him in a boiling cauldron and maneuvers himself so forcefully into the crevasse of the wall. But…
Jessica Puente 