Day 11

Um today was so relaxing. I did nothing. Sat around with the family. Went shopping for food. Ate all the samples at Sams Club. Hung out on a dock for a little bit. I'm thinking about getting another tattoo while im here. Who knows. But im having some mixed feelings about some people/s... But other than that, today was just alright and boring. 

I 

love

boring

days...

sometimes :)

I got a tumblr... You know, gotta stay trendy in the electronic world.

Day 10

Raining. Still. Never. Ending. I went to a couple beaches.. but it was dumping rain and it was just a little less fun. I mean, i totally love rain. But when its been raining for more than 24 hours and its windy... Umm.. no thanks. So i head up the Oregon coast, i hit Newport, and i think... "Hey Kenz, I'm kinda sick of being alone. I don't want to not know where im going to sleep tonight. I should just go up to Seattle and go to Cannon Beach, and Astoria when i come back down to California." GOOD THINKING. So i headed over to the main high way. I stopped in this little town (can't remember the name) to get gas. In Oregon, you don't pump your own gas... But i didn't know this. So i hop out start getting ready to pump my gas and this man comes running out and is like, "I'll pump your gas, don't do it!" I mean, shit, i let the man do it. And then we got to talking and he told me if i come back to that town i would guaranteed a job there, pumping peoples gas. So if stuff doesn't work out in Utah... I know where im going. ( not really because i don't know the name of the town. I think that is started with a P..) I high tailed it to Seattle. :) So now... I'm sleeping on a couch tonight and not a motel bed or a wet tent.
SCORE.

Day 9

I woke up at KOA to discover A - the zipper on my tent is broken. B - Water got in my tent last night due to a nice rain storm. So it took me a good 30 minutes to shake all the water out of my tent. But after this was done, i went to these two beaches, Clam and Moonstone. They were the most beautiful beaches ever. Clam beach had so many shells. Moonstone, there were surfers, caves, cute little birds, and huge rock formations. It was lovely.

<--- found those flowers at moonstone beach sitting on a rock.

Then I drove up to the redwood forest. Went on this three mile hike through the woods. It was down pouring rain, so i put on three jackets and then headed out. Water got everywhere. Got in my backpack, my camera, my ipod, my shoes (mostly my shoes), my 3 jackets. It was fun but by the end of the hike i wanted to just sit in my car. Oh i forgot, there was a section of the trail that was covered in worms. It was like I was in horror movie or a night terror. I was 1.2643529 seconds away from having a legit panic attack. I ran so fast through that part of the trail. Good thing no one was around because they would have thought i was some insane little girl from Utah running like a gold medal Olympian through the forest. When i got out of that section i was good. Eventually i got back to my car and changed in my car getting everything that was wet off of me. Then i headed to Jedediah Smith redwoods. I took the total roundabout way there. I was off roading in the the Jetta. Straight up. It was a little scary at times but i got through it. I'm so so glad that i took that way because it was so beautiful. I have a picture, ill upload it later. Then i ended up at the camp ground and half of the sites were closed and the other half were flooded. So once again... In a motel room in Bookings Oregon. All in all, i had, once again, an amazing day. :)

Day 8

Ummm day 8.
Woke up in my fancy hotel room in Fort Bragg (not really it was only 50 bucks... so eh). And back tracked to Mendocino. I looked for the freaking state park but i couldn't find it. So i zoomed my car to the nearest Presbyterian church, halted, and made a lot of phone calls to family and such. Then i drove, and drove, blah blah blah. And i ended up at this little beach.. I don't know where it was but it was amazing. There was this huge rock and it had oodles of sea life crawlin' all over it. There were also tons and tons of shells and sand dollars. So i snagged a couple of those. Played around and then hopped back in the car and drove. If you havent been on Highway 1, let me tell you... Its the road from hell. Straight up. Its a piece of junk. Junk as in: -Pot holes -20 degree turns -One lane is usable -Construction, and my most favorite, -The people who ride your ass because you would rather live than die, taking that turn at 40 miles an hour. Its so pretty and the views are breath taking, but if your not a good driver... you would probably end up dead. Im not kidding.
So i ended up taking a different way, highway 101, and ended up in this little town called Garberville. I see a subway and i think, "hey self, you drove some horrible terrain today, you should get a BMT for your troubles." And i called some more people and when im talking on the phone in the subway parking lot i see a sign that says... "HERB CONNECTION" with a huge marijuana leaf on it. The first thing that pops into my head is... "holy shit i am so far away from Utah.."
Then i hop back on the highway and go to Humboldt State Park. Driving along this road called "Avenue of Giants". By giants they mean redwood trees. Those suckers are HUGE! I laid on (muddy) ground and looked at them for a tops of 30 minutes. It was the most wonderful thing i have ever done. I cant explane it but having something so huge and taking up so much space around you makes you feel like you are the tiniest thing in the world and you need to move aside. I for serious almost started crying. And no one will get that unless they have seen these trees and were totally alone with no human being around you. It was an exhilarating experience. And i was dumb and didnt camp there.... >:(
So i drove to Arcadia. It is such a piece of shit. Some guy at a motel tried to take all my money because "you are 19" and he needed a 250 dollar security deposit. Umm... fuck you. I was super pissed about it but then why let that shit ruin my awesome day? So i found a KOA, my neighbors are mean and really short with me but whatever they have a swimming pool!!!! ... and they have wifi. this is a new revolution of camping. As Kaise said, "KOA is Roxanne camping" (none of you will get that unless you know Roxanne)
I have 2 % battery on my lap top. Gotta go!

The Other Half of Day 7

You know how i was ravin' in my last blog about how i was hungry? Yeah... i ate a cookie, some crackers and cheese wiz. For a teenager, id say that is a pretty descent diet. Cookie keeps your blood sugar up, crackers for the carbohydrates, and cheese wiz for the protein and dairy?  The cheese wiz is a little questionable.

What did i end up doing last night.... Humm... I found zebras. 100% legit, real, breathing, striped zebras. That was really weird. They were in a little town called Point Arena, its right on the coast. I didnt think that zebras lived on the coast but, golly gee, i was wrong. I took some pictures (with the 35 mm).
I also was driving and i looked out at the sky and the ocean and they were the exact same color. You really couldnt see where the sky and the water separated. It gave me chills. It was super creepy.
I went on an exploration to find tent camping... didnt go so well. I found a BUNCH of RV and trailer home parks. But the last straw was seeing some guy, completely wasted with a frothy beverage in hand walking out of his RV. So i splurged and got a hotel room and took a shower (which was the best thing of my entire life, if you dont mind me telling.)
And that was the rest of day seven.
(I'll load a picture or two tomorrow)

Day 6 & 7 1/2

I don't really feel like writing this... But i will. I'm just hungry and i would rather do my natural instinct and go look for food, but since i'm here and i found someones wireless to poach off of, why not. Im in so hippie town that goes by the name of Bolinas. And i mean i don't use the term 'hippie' lightly. It's a legit hippie town. When you go into the town from highway 1, there are peace signs covering the stop signs and everything that is stationary and has to do with a street sign. Its a sweet little place. I guess i can fit in here because i haven't showered in 3 days and I'm starting to smell like B.O. and iv been wearing the same thing for 3 days, not to put hippies to a stereotype though... (this is day seven and a half, by the way.)

Day 6
When up the coast on highway 1. Stopped at Ano Nuevo. It was for shiz, the coolest place ever. I just walked around, hung out with my camera, looked at some smelly ass Elephant Seals and went on my merry way. The one thing that sucked about going to Ano Nuevo was, i wore moccasins. DUMBEST thing i could ever do because you full on hike up and down sand dunes at this place. So im pretty sure i had a pound of sand in each shoe. And when i got back to my car from this 6 mile hike, sand kept pouring out of those things. So when i get back to utah im positive ill have to buy some new ones. Bummer. So after Ano, I headed north and hit this little beach called Bean Hollow. My dads wife had told me it was a super cool place to go, so i went. But at first i thought... this is dumb. I dont see anything that represents a bean or a hollow. But then i found these super cool rock formations. I was stoked on life. Then after Bean, i headed up to San Francisco. Stayed the night at my Aunties house. Her dog bit me. We went out for ice cream. Went to this cool Chinese store where they spell shit wrong and use improper English. Her little boy read me a bed time story. We ate dinner. Her cat had some stanky ass diarrhea. You know, the good shit. All and all yesterday was a great day. Now i just need to finish day 7 out and ill be golden. Okay i need food now. Peace (I'm not just saying that because im in a hippie town)

Day 5

Went out to Point Lobos today. I loved it. It was such a good experience. I walked around the entire peninsula, taking pictures thinking about life. The second i got there i was so upset because i forgot my zoom lens to take pictures of the sea otters and harbor seals. SO pissed. But its okay. hopefully I'll go back some other time. I love the way the wave sound on the beach their. Because they don't have sand. They have little pebbles, so it sounds like rain. I really cant explain how much I love it there. I hope to find more places like this on my way up the coast. Im positive i will. 


So tomorrow I'm heading up to San Francisco/Berkeley. On the way there I'm going to make a couple of stops:
-Ano Nuevo State Park
-Bean Hollow State Beach
-Half Moon Bay

So I'm hoping ill have as much fun at these places as I did at Point Lobos. And this time I'll bring my zoom lens :) I'll be sure to take tons of pictures and junk. Oh also... today i burned through, pretty much, two rolls of film... Maybe i should tone it down. But when your surrounded by awesome shit, why wouldn't you take pictures of it? 

Day 4

 

Santa Cruz 

Day 2 & 3

Day 2-
I slept in. Hung out. Ate a samich. :)
Then i wondered around Carmel and ended up at the beach. Took tons of pictures.
Then went home, then back down to the beach to watch the sunset.
So while i was watching the sunset i looked behind me and saw that there was a rainbow!
That made my day.

Day 3-
HAD THE WORST MIGRAINE OF MY ENTIRE LIFE.
So i laid in bed all day.
Just picked my mom up from the airport, she was in Arizona with my grandpa.
And now I'm going to bed because my head still hurts.
I think I'm going to go up to Santa Cruz tomorrow with my mom and her roommate.

Day 1

I left Salty Town at 3. (I felt like sleeping in... Nothing wrong with that.)
My goal was to go to Reno... But i made it to Winnamucca. Now the cat, dog, and i are hanging out in a hotel room. I'm pissed though.. i asked for a one bed hotel and i got a two bed. But whatever. I'm not going to bitch over a hotel room.
I am so excited for this trip. I feel like i'm going to find myself. I know that sounds so dumb and odd to say. But its this awesome gut feeling that i have. Well i'm going to hit the hay. Need to be will rested for the road to California.

Pictures so far. More to come.

Desktop

My desktop is most likely 10x cooler than yours.

Family Matters...

Grandpa is in the hospital, just got a pacemaker. That and a handful of more things are going wrong with his body. Liver, internal bleeding... ect.
Grandpa got one pacemaker, but it wasn't working right. It was making his BP really low and he kept fainting and nodding in and out. So they just put in a temporary pacemaker... I don't know what that is or what that means.. But in the morning they need to put in another (non temporary) pacemaker.
He is in the intensive care unit.. I don't know what to do.. I'm 500 miles away. I'm not close with my grandpa. I don't like his out look on a lot of things. We've never really got along. And the fact that he has hurt my mom emotionally makes me so, so, so mad, i can't even explain it.. And if i could explain it, i sure as shit wouldn't tell people over a blog.

It's kinda weird how one bad thing can make you wish you cared more about someone.

It's 2:30 in the morning and all my friends are asleep and i wanted to tell someone whats going on so i don't feel so alone. I bet no one will even read this. Ha... it's the thought that counts i suppose.

I Like Being Outside...

Adib + Frisbee

Umm... What an interesting day at the park.
Playing frisbee in the park with friends, leads to a man getting hit with the frisbee in the face, bleeding everywhere, laughing my ass off (sorry), and an exchange of phone numbers just in case anything "happens".
BUT HONESTLY.
What are the odds of someone running in a park and getting smacked in the face with a frisbee at such a high velocity that is makes them bleed out of their eye, nose, and mouth?
Karma must have just took a shit on Adib the persian rug man.

Nobody sees tears when your standing in the storm.

Gonna go far, with charisma and skill
Until they put my face on a million dollar bill
Reality is just too much to bear with
Paranoid, walkin around careless.
Ill make you smile for the simple fact Im good at it 
Ill make you smile just so I can sit and look at it
It hurts to watch Lucy lose the dream , Ive had the pleasure of seeing our hero kick and scream.
Driving home drunk from the front one night
he tied his '84 Tempo round a street light
So you see sir, my deck of cards serves me as a bible
An almanac...and a prayer book.
Mother of two, no one knew, because the twins stayed with her mom
but when they finally found the bitch still had the twist round her arm
Be leary of what you wish for....

STRESSING...

^ 'nough said.
This trip shit is freaking me out.
:(
i feel like i have SO much to do before Wednesday.
But i just keep thinking of leaving my friends and i'm scared they are going to forget me.
I know that is dumb. But, eh, everyone has irrational feelings.

I guess i have this to look forward to...

My goal is to update my blog when I'm on the road. Ha, lets hope it works...

Hum..

haven't written anything on this piece of shit in a while.
lifes just peachy and colorful.
going on a trip for 3-4 weeks.
Kinda freaking out about it because im leaving on the 6th.
Kinda freaking out because im fucking horrified but so excited to see my mom and who ever i see along the way.