Hiking the cliffs overlooking the pacific was a great experience. I could have done it all day but since I was on a work trip I decided to just be out there for an hour early in the morning before the conference started for the day. 
Besides the amazing views which alone was enough to keep me occupied all day I loved the excitement of the adventure.
Between the training run fall when I broke my hand a couple yrs ago and the race fall that dnf’d me and mangled my knee this summer, I have a slight fear of falling now and of note, I have a touch of vertigo from tbi so falling is always a realistic probability for me.
So there I was on a terrain unfamiliar to me and knowing that if I did slip I was toast. But I kept going. I kept climbing. It was too fantastic not to explore.
I’d find spots to sit down and just wait as if my love was on his way to put his arms around me and share the experience w me but alas I knew that was impossible but what ever. I watched a young couple adore each other and cuddle close together like the rest of the world was invisible and I envied them. 
But enuf of that. 
The most critically dangerous moment I have no pictures of it except in my head. I was too frozen w fear to be maneuvering around for my phone. I had chosen a path that seemed like the only way to get to the highest peak. There were two steps that would require a bit of a leap. And on either side of the exact spot where my foot needed to land – say a radius of 18 inches was the whole platform – it was a drop of about a thousand feet landing on jagged cliffs. Was it going to be slippery? Would I lose balance?
I couldn’t even turn back, like literally there was no way to pivot – I was frozen. For I would guess five mins or so. I could feel tears rolling down my cheeks.
They were cold. ps California in my experience is neither sunny nor hot.
Then I just had to do it. It was the most terrifying moment of my little life. Two steps. I did it. Fuck. Did anyone see that? No. 
Moving on.
I made it from one side to the other and back. Then I called my cabby that I cut an expensive deal w to come back and get me. And that’s it. I want to retire here. 😉
Amazing. #sunsetcliffs #hiking #adventure
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