{"id":11941,"date":"2014-10-25T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2014-10-24T18:47:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:47:58","slug":"vacation-huntington-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11941","title":{"rendered":"Vacation! Huntington Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Michael’s conference was at Huntington Beach in some really expensive resort hotel.<\/p>\n

Really expensive resort\/hotel. But I was lucky enough this trip that the hotel was NOT in the middle of nowhere, so I was able to walk to find other (more reasonably priced) places to eat.<\/p>\n

If you know me, you are probably aware that I do not much care for the sun. So I was surprised to find that I enjoyed the beach far more than I would have expected, mostly because I found watching to surfers to be fascinating and somewhat mesmerizing.<\/p>\n

And there were a LOT of surfers.<\/p>\n

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I was on the pier at 5:30 AM and noon and sunset, and the water was always full of surfers.<\/p>\n

I also noticed that not only did males predominate, but when there were female surfers, it was first thing in the morning, or late afternoon (say, before work and after work), which I found quite interesting. Mind you, it was a very<\/em> small sample size.<\/p>\n

And I also liked walking along the beach at sunrise and sunset. Water is very relaxing, and walking along the water without the sun beating down on me or massive crowds was quite pleasant.<\/p>\n

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And the birds!<\/p>\n

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I kept watching the Sandlings and giggling with delight as they’d walk down to the water line, and then scurry back from the tide.<\/p>\n

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Plus, a pelican that had almost no fear of humans.<\/p>\n

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And I did get to spend some time with this guy:<\/p>\n

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So Michael’s conference was at Huntington Beach in some really expensive resort hotel. Really expensive resort\/hotel. But I was lucky enough this trip that the hotel was NOT in the middle of nowhere, so I was able to walk to find other (more reasonably priced) places to eat. If you know me, you are probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1071,22,1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-photos","category-travel-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-36B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}