Highway (it will take you to another page... evidently, I am not smart enough to figure out how to embed the player here.)
On Thursday, May 2nd I received a text message from a good friend asking if I could do him a really big favor (In the interest of privacy, I won't disclose the friend or the favor). After checking out my schedule and realizing the importance of what was at stake, how could I refuse. After all, driving long distances is something I have done many times in my life. And if I could do that to help someone who needed it, even better.
Preparing for the trip I began to realize that I will have actually driven from New York to Los Angeles (the first leg from NYC to home took two days in March). It's something I had never done. In fact, it was something that had never crossed my mind to do. That's a long way. Over 2800 miles. A lot of highway. I lot of white and yellow lines. A lot of reading license plates. A lot of gas. A lot of Diet Coke. And, a lot of places to make pit stops because of the amount of Diet Coke.
The drive started at 5:30am on May 5th.
We went straight west down I-70. Through Kansas and Colorado and into Utah. 16 hours 1100 miles.
Black Dragon Canyon, right off of I-70 in Utah
We stopped in Richfield, Utah. A small town nestled in the Utah mountains about 40 miles from the western end of I-70).
When I woke up on Monday, I decided to take a walk and watch the sun rise over the Utah mountains. As the light started to appear in the eastern sky, I contemplated where I was and where I had been. You start to realize what an amazing an beautiful country we live in. From lush green to desert brown. All beautiful in it's own way. Like people. Everyone has beauty, but sometimes we have to look a little harder to see it.
My mind started to drift to my own life. Who I am and where I am going. The things I want and the things I don't. The people I want in it, that inspire me like the sunrise. Maybe it was time to shed some skin and grow. Maybe it was time to, once again, reevaluate things. The truth is, I have been doing that for quite some time, so, this was more like a reinforcement.
It was time to hit the road and drive some more.
Sun rising over the Utah Rock
We hit I-15 in no time. Now we were heading southwest toward our destination. Since we got 16 hours out of the way the day before, we only had 8 or so to cover this day. Piece. Of. Cake.
Utah seemed like such a lonely place. Hardly anything there. Just rocks and sand and highway. The speed limit signs say 75 or 80 but I think they really say, "Hey... thanks for being here. Drive safely, and we won't bother you." Because if you are going 80, it feels like 40.
I-15 South, Utah
This trip took us Denver, and Las Vegas on the way to Los Angeles... excuse me... Huntington Beach. Evidently, they are not really the same thing. Maybe two different worlds?
We made it to the coast in the middle of the afternoon. I saw the sunrise in the mountains and the suset on the beach. This was a good day.
Sunset off the Huntington Beach Pier
It's all connected. It's all there to inspire us to be who we were meant to be. Natural or divine, it doesn't matter. It's there to help us be who we want so we can be and do the same for others. Be bold. There isn't any reason that you shouldn't go after the things you want. Be bold. Happiness. Be bold. Live the life you have while you have it. Be bold. Squeeze all the juice you can out of it. Be bold. Suck out the marrow. Be bold. Love other people, always. Be bold. Help others whenever you can. Be Bold. The sky, the mountain, the ocean's the limit. It's all up to you. Be bold.
Take the chance. BE BOLD.
Music is Life,
Albert
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