Any night spent indoors on a bed, of any variety, is a good night, so we both woke up cheerful. Then of course we were greeted by lovely Blythe. A hot shower, with some serious water pressure *B commented on the love of the water pressure in Blythe’s “ghetto shower” as she called it, to which Blythe comedically responded “I know right sometimes it really hurts my nipples”. So was not expecting that response if I would have been taking a sip of water I probably would have choked on it and spit it out so funny*and then Blythe made us an awesome breakfast. We had her signature green drinks (this time they were less grainy so much easier to drink without feeling like we were gnawing on leaves) followed by a sort of egg omelet with veggies and cheese *correction scrambled eggs with fresh tomato, green peppers and broccoli. So good. Who knew Blythe was also little miss Susie home maker.*, grapefruit, and whole grain toast. It was quite deliscious and knowing the cook, probably really good for us. We got ourselves put together and I made Lindsay do my makeup so I could feel like Barbie. Yep, I’m so high maintenance. Then we set out on the day to explore West Hollywood. We took a walk down Melrose, passing all sorts of shops. We wandered into a chandelier shop with beautiful intricate light fixtures and then into Crystalarium, a store specializing in crystals. That’s definitely not a store you’d find in the Midwest. Especially when one of the crystals retailed at $100,000. Supposedly this is where the stars buy their rocks. * before entering this shop Blythe had mentioned that one of her friends was having a fire sale of her crystals and that if we wanted to stop by we could. Her friend said she really wanted to meet us she was digging the cousin vibes she was getting. Blythe asked us if we wanted to partake and we agreed to it. Good decision.* We kept walking and daydreaming of cupcakes after seeing a store with some sort of cupcake reference in the name. *Sprinkles cupcakes in fact that Blythe had mentioned* Blythe took us to Urth, a trendy café on Melrose so we could get our sugar fix. We ordered a three layer cheesecake and a carrot cake to split. I got fresh watermelon juice and the girls got some sort of coffee variety.* I had a green tea latte that had a chick formed in the foam. Awesome* I found us a table outside and we sat and waited for our dessert. Nothing like sweets for lunch. We split the treats…. And they sure were yummy! Probably some of the best carrot cake I’ve ever eaten. What a perfect California day… eating sugar for lunch in the sunshine with my cousins. The girls next to us were gossiping and I felt like we were straight up on Laguna Beach. After we had eaten most of our treats, we kept walking. We took a little detour on Melrose Place (yeah like the show) and wandered by a John Frieda salon and an array of Marc Jacobs stores. We did standard window shopping… the road trip budget isn’t really made for Hollywood prices.
We headed back towards Blythe’s. She had mentioned a friend of her sells jewelry and was having a moving sale so we decided to venture that way. She wasn’t home yet, so we found our way to her backyard where she has a sort of crystal zen garden….guarded by King Tut. We sat on this patch of crystal rocks under the pyramid structure. Other than her initial pursuits of acting (and some side modeling), painting and promotion of the arts, and of course her crusades for being green and sustainable, Blythe has a background in metaphysics, which focuses on the study of energy. Now its sort of hard to wrap your mind around, except that everything in the universe gives and receives. This sort of thinking makes even more sense when you’ve spent 3 weeks in a car with another person. The idea that we admit a sort of energy subconsciously is best understood in this environment…because although we have always been similar…we most definitely picked up each other’s energy in the car. We could sit in the car, not say a word, or even really exchange facial expressions and I could feel how she was feeling. Anyway, supposedly a pyramid is suppose to sort of contain the energy. Like an energy hotspot if you will, so we sat under this pyramid in the middle of these pretty pink flowers and vegged. Not really sure if we felt the energy as much as the hot California sun beating on us. I got up and found a seat in the shade…and must have knicked my toe on a rock because Blythe let me know my toe was bleeding. Totally oblivious to it. We were in the middle of figuring out what had happened to my toe when Blythe’s friend and owner of the space we were currently occupying, Lunice, appeared. Our introductions were followed by me apologizing for bleeding on her patio, which she replied right on, almost happy that I was leaving some of me behind. Any person that has such an energetic response to the fact that you are bleeding on her patio is automatically a person worth knowing. *plus she instantaneously gave us hugs and welcomed us into her world if you will. Her and Blythe were saying “something about the kids. I had no idea what they were talking about until the garage doors we opened and Blythe proclaimed “hi kids”. They were talking about the rocks and crystals. I love rocks and all but wow they were really into rocks. Lenise treated them as if they were people and always tried to find the right home for the crystals. She said she could communicatre with them. All seems a little hoaky and weird right? Totally what I was thinking when Blythe gave B and I both a crystal to rub on our bodies at thanksgiving. I was thinking it a little emore even then. Until she described it as the rocks give out vibrations while B touched this spectalur piece of citrine and proclaimed I feel it. What? So I put my hand on it. Sure as shit it pulses. I was opening my mind up at this point. The whole reson fopr the trip essentially. Lenise might make me a believer yet.*She opened up her garages and showed us her crystals and jewelry and then her big crystal pieces… one retailing for $300,000. Lenise is a “crystal intuit” which means she has a greater sensitivity to the energies of the crystals. She specializes in matching people with the right crystal for their needs. While all this sort of idealogy is not anything I’m familiar with…. After 2 hours with Lenise. I think me and Lindsay were both “drinking the Kool-Aid” for lack of better term. I sat on the large crystal (the one worth $300,000) and I could feel it pulsing. Lenise has great perception and both Lindsay and I ended up crying as we talked to her. She took us into her home and we sat and chatted for a while. I think we both left with a little inspiration… or at least a reminder to be true to ourselves and create our own happiness. In some strange way, it was like the perfect LA experience. * The most profound part of the trip. While we were upstairs chatting with Lenise she was educating us on what each stone was meant for. I was still skeptical until I placed this gorgeous stone flat on my chest while I was standing and it took my breathe away and I could feel it sending energy up and down my spine. Ok I am thouroughly intrigued. I was looking for something bigger than myself and I think I found it. So I asked questions. I asked what stone was good for mental health. Namely depression. Lenise told me citrine. And then she said the most amazing and intuitive thing to me, “the outside isn’t you! The inside doesn’t match the outside. You carry the weight of other people when you find your place the weight will just fall off” I never said anything about my weight. I started to cry like hardcore cry. It hit the cord.What a interesting way of seeing it, that totally fits. Then Blythe started to cry and I was just left in utter amazement of this woman I had just met. She continued and was everybit dead on the mark. Ok I believe it. And if there was any doubt left the pendulum was astounding. B saw it work too. Phenominal. So glad we got to meet this amazing woman but I’m not really surprised that Blythe attracts such great people she is a great person.* We also left with some crystal and rock jewelry… I got some beautiful jade pedants and a beaded bracelet that has little blue beads that look like the world. Perhaps a reminder that the world is mine or that the world is big, or at least a reminder of a great adventure with some marvelous women. * I got something for my brother for concentration, a pendant of citrine and amethyst a virtual good vibe powerhouse, a pendant for inspiration and concentration, and a turquoise ring. After 2 rounds of hugs we were off*
One of the best part of this trip is our visits with different friends and family. When I told Matthew that our visits were my favorite parts of the trip so far, he claimed I was a socialite. Well, yes, that is part of it… but what I really like is being able to experience the lifestyles of so many different people in different places. Spending time with Blythe and Lenise showed us that there are so many different ways of thinking and viewing the world and sometimes an open mind can help you deal with life by seeing it from different perspectives. We hugged our new friend goodbye and headed back to Blythe…we had lingered more than scheduled for..but I made no reference to the schedule because I knew that this was an experience worth lingering for.*somewhere in there I lost a hundred dollar bill, bummer. We looked for it and to no avail. I didn’t let myself ruin the day by getting pissed. Blithe told me I handled it like a goddess. Thanks Blythe you made me feel like one for the day. It was my last hundred ( I had cash because I lost my debit card and they did not get me my new one before we left so that’s why I was carrying cash, not my ideal) which I figured was a blessing. I only lost one it could have been more and it could have been worse. Besides Blythe kept saying “maybe someone else really needed it”. I thought who could need it more than the unemployed girl with debt? Well someone who doesn’t have all the riches in love and support that I am blessed with from my family and friends. I was connecting with my wise min and open mind. As I said earlier…shit happens brush it off and didn’t let it ruin my day* I know both of us loved our time with Blythe… and its never enough time. She has good energy… and leaves you happy and always inspired, solely by the way she lives. I can’t wait for her business line to launch, and for all the success in the world to come to her so we can play more. Lindsay misplaced some cash…so after scouring the neighborhood and returning to Lunice’s once more, we got back to Blythe’s. She made us a great dinner of pasta and kale salad… which was ofcourse very healthy and very yummy. If Blythe could just cook for us, I think we’d all eat well. Except I’m not sure if I could give up my Eggo waffles… I love those processed things. She had also made us dehydrated apples and pears for roadtrip snacks. And our left over carrot cake and cheesecake. We packed up our stuff and gave her big hugs goodbye. We always hate the goodbyes.
I drove since we’d be venturing through the city scapes of Los Angeles. We undoubtably hit traffic immediately and spent a little while crawling on the 5. There’d be moments of freedom, where I’d race ahead… playing summer music, in the sunshine, feeling very California. Like I needed a convertible and a pedicure. We had already thought we needed to Pretty Woman strut down Melrose earlier. Lindsay took a nap while I zipped towards San Diego, watching the beautiful sunset in the rearview mirror.
It was 9:30 when we reached the outskirts of San Diego. We saw Sassafrass Rd which Lindsay found humorous. Turns out Carrie also found it funny when she visited San Diego and had called Blythe to tell her about it... seriously, peas in a pod us cousins. Originally we had planned to spend at least a half of day in San Diego…because I’ve heard nothing but great things and just had good vibes about it. But our next destination was Tucson, and there were 5 people there we were really anxious to see, so we spent a grand total of 30 minutes in San Diego.. mostly we ventured to the beach at Coronado. It was dark but I wanted to get some sand and seashells from the ocean for Jodi…who loved San Diego and the beach…and perhaps I don’t know, it makes me feel like she’s not really gone if I think about her like she’s still here. We found the beach…took off our shoes and ran in the beautiful sand. Now I can’t say much about San Diego, other than the city had colorful lights, but the sand and the beach were sure nice. We played in the water…well sort of. Lindsay was going to go in in her clothes but then she felt something on her feet and that was that. *DUDE something swam over my foot and it was dark and it was creepy so I made a goofy face (so says the photo evidence) and high tailed it out of there no pacific ocean swimming for me* We wandered along the shore with the flashlight and we saw someone with a bonfire. I wanted to make smores… so I consider asking if we could use their campfire. Plus bonfires on the beach are on my list. After a little wandering, we found the bathroom, washed off our feet, and got back in the car. Lindsay stopped at Starbucks and caffefined up for the 6 hour drive t o Tucson. We hit the road about 10:15 pm… but stopped shortly after to find a Wal-mart. Although it was a SuperCenter it closed at 10 pm…fail * I don’t know where everyone else is from but in Wisconsin Wal-mart super center is synonymous with 24hrs*. So on the road again…
I tried to sleep because I had every intention of taking over the driving at around 1 am. I feel sort of asleep, but would wake up periodically. One time I woke up and asked Lindsay if we had enough gas… 100% worry wart. Turns out we did need gas… I just didn’t want to run out while we were driving through the desert mountains. We found a gas station and used the bathroom… I offered to drive (I had a Pepsi on reserve) but Lindsay insisted she was fine. We had to go through border patrol, which was super random because we had been in Arizona for at least a few miles and we were coming from California. They were more intimidating looking than any other border patrol… they had dogs sniff our vehicle but they were friendly enough so onward we went. For the last 2 hours, I slept on and off…but then decided to sit up and sing instead. Road warriors. We approached Picacho Peak around 3:30 am… and finally got off at Cortaro around 4:15. The sun was about to rise by the time we pulled into Carrie’s driveway. We called her to let us in… hugged…looked at each other and then went to bed. Lindsay was convinced we should stay up to watch the sunrise…but Carrie and I both gave her the “you have fun with that” look. And then it was bed time…. At 4:30 am. Good day. * I would like to add that I couldn’t sleep and B wouldn’t read me a bedtime story…how rude!* It was 4:30 am... I wasn't going to read her a bedtime story.
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