Good Vibrations?

California’s spirit is growing on me. That’s the only explanation. But the place(s) and the people are so amazing and nice, you can’t resist.

So, what’s up? Well, first, I run every morning – a trend yet to be confirmed with more data points ;)

And then there is this incredible experience on Sunday: slack rope walking. I went to the beach at Santa Monica with schoolmates Sarah and Russell. At the Muscle Beach (composed of more acrobatic and gymnastic attractions than in Venice), a new-age guy was walking on a rope he had attached between two poles. He kindly offered us to try, which we did.

(Sorry, that’s the only picture I have…thanks to Sarah)

I could almost walk without help and really enjoyed the experience. As our new-age instructor explained, it’s a “mind game”. The key to prevent the rope to lead the dance is to concentrate and breathe. I’d really like to do that on a daily or weekly basis for concentration – that’s much more my thing than sudoku ;)

And who knows, I might get into the high flyers league… these “slackliners” are insane. Or am I just a slacker? – that’s a bad play on words but I had to do it because I saw a “slacker” tee-shirt in a shop in Santa Barbara the day before.

Speaking of Santa Barbara, a final note on California. My dear friend Nicolas de P. was right about one thing: UCLA is too intellectual. The concentration of beautiful girls is higher in UCSB from my observation in Main Street bars Saturday evening. ;) But that is so irrelevant given the concentration of lovely Californians in California.

Damn, I really am a slacker.