Day started out gloomy enough, not for anything do they call this area "Fog Town". It wasn't inviting weather, but I decided to take the bike out for a little ride. I ran into this graffito on one of the columns for the upper highway. The last and first time I ran into it was on the way back home from the beach, under the influence of 2 grams of mushrooms, it was not pleasant. A little ways up is a memorial to some poor guy. I've never seen anyone around, let alone fixing , the memorial, but it always looks more or less well kept.
It was a very grey day, but that trail was calling. 
The other day while I was riding this trail with the missus I ran into a snake. She was coming up the trail, and thought it was dead, and would've ran over the poor thing, probably. I ended up running my tire on its tail, so that it toreass into the weeds. Turns out it might have been an endangered species. But hopefully not.
So I knew where I wanted to go. It was this abandoned military site, which is part of Fort Ord. I wanted to take pictures of all the graffiti there. I really like the all the splashes of different color in this verdant area. Most of these areas say "Area Closed" but I feel that if it is government owned and my tax dollars pay for its upkeep I should be allowed a damn stroll every now and then. I threw my bike over the warning wire, and proceeded to make my way into this graffitied place.
Behind this circular thing I found this graffiti I really enjoyed because it looks like Master Shake from Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which if you knew me I'm a huge fan of. 
There's this hidden path behind the abandoned buildings, which leads to a great little beach.
It led to this...
I sat on a perch, and looked at this flock of seagulls kicking it by the shore. I thought it must be pretty chill being an animal, and pretty much just chilling year round, and eating whatever the good Lord provides. I thought of how birds think equally, with respect to consciousness, as I do. They must, right? They must interior lives as we do, but totally incomprehensible to us.
I sat there admiring the great fucking place I live which I am almost always ungrateful about. The coastline, and the cities it contained, the cities I lived in and loved and hated all my life, pretty much. All the memories contained on this beach, in this ocean, in these towns that I traversed like a wandering invalid, looking to get high and drunk with anyone, the rambling bike rides to past girlfriends, who I loved to obsession, all the memories contained in the very fabric of the towns and the beach, as though the coastline lived in me as well as I in it. 
And I felt free, as in free of the suffering I went through, when I was briefly homeless, and sleeping on the beach, blacked out, or waking up in display sheds outside Ace, or in dumpsters, or the many embarrassments that lived in this coastline, I felt free of regret, and shame. I live in one of the most beautiful places on earth, and no self-inflicted hell should have distracted me from it, and it was then that I wanted to breathe in the air entire, to somehow embrace this coastline, and its inhabitants, as a bird takes in the entirety up there kicking it in the sky, like some idle god.
Dude ft ord is the shit!! Love exploring the empty barracks. That would make a cool post too!
Yeah. I might do that. A little ghost hunting maybe lol
The landscape is still beautiful, even if it is cloudy. :) I love the bird photo! Now you've got me thinking of the mind of a bird...
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I look at this beach every single day from across the bay :-D! We often take this beauty for granted you are right. I love California and have to remind myself daily that we live in one of the most beautiful places imaginable, and to appreciate it more.
Maybe one day we can all get together for a smoke sesh again :-) Me, you and Jonyoudyer.
I wouldn't wanna live anywhere else. The only downside is it can be kind of slow.
And dude I'm waiting for the day!
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