{"id":203,"date":"2012-01-24T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/?p=203"},"modified":"2022-01-02T22:13:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T22:13:05","slug":"on-the-road-part-1-seacliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/on-the-road-part-1-seacliff\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Road, Part 1: En Route to Santa Barbara, Seacliff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on a hiatus with my postings. As much as I would like to say I was on a sabbatical, my only reason is that life and work proceeded to take over my hours until I finally looked at the calendar and realized 2011 is of yesteryear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Clearly seeing that I needed to take a deep breath, I started 2012 with a nostalgic meandering drive through Pacific Coast Highway (California Route 1), and headed for Santa Barbara.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dear friend <a title=\"A Spoonful Of\" href=\"http:\/\/aspoonfulof.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katie<\/a> gave me a coin that&#8217;s &#8216;HEAD\/HEART&#8217;. The Head is usually the driver for me and the Heart always takes a back seat&#8230; But this time, I let the Heart run free. When it crossed my mind to exit at random points, I got off without thinking twice and without someone countering my initiatives.&nbsp;The lack of planning (and companion) was rather liberating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For as long as I can remember, I&#8217;ve always wanted to check out Seacliff\/Rincon Beach. With my eyes wide open, I admired all the campers in their trailers, the surfers dotting the ocean, the occasional sprint of a dog chasing the waves, the salty breeze that Californian&#8217;s can&#8217;t live without&#8230; Each passing minute pumped new life into my soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dear Reader,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Whatever you&#8217;re doing, pause for a minute. Take a deep breath.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large wp-image-204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_MG_8946-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Surfer at Rincon Beach \/ Seacliff \/ Pacific Coast Highway\" class=\"wp-image-204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_MG_8946-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_MG_8946-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_MG_8946.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Surfer at Rincon Beach \/ PCH \u00a9 2012 Shiela Hizon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large wp-image-206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_MG_8963-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Rincon Island \/ Richfield Pier \/ Rincon Beach \/ Seacliff \/ Pacific Coast Highway\" class=\"wp-image-206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_MG_8963-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_MG_8963-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_MG_8963.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Rincon Island \/ Rincon Beach \/ Seacliff \/ PCH \u00a9 2012 Shiela Hizon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large wp-image-208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_IMG_2570-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Surfers at Rincon Beach \/ Seacliff \/ Pacific Coast Highway [Hipstamatic\/iPhone]\" class=\"wp-image-208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_IMG_2570-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_IMG_2570-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_IMG_2570-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_IMG_2570.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Surfers at Rincon Beach \/ Seacliff \/ PCH \u00a9 2012 Shiela Hizon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large wp-image-209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_IMG_2583-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rincon Beach \/ Seacliff \/ Pacific Coast Highway [Hipstamatic\/iPhone]\" class=\"wp-image-209\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_IMG_2583-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_IMG_2583-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_IMG_2583-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seacliff_HIZ_IMG_2583.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Rincon Beach \/ Seacliff \/ Pacific Coast Highway \u00a9 2012 Shiela Hizon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a hiatus with my postings. As much as I would like to say I was on a sabbatical, my only reason is that life and work proceeded to take over my hours until I finally looked at the calendar and realized 2011 is of yesteryear. Clearly seeing that I needed to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[130,137,128,134,132,129,127,135,136,131],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-130","tag-beach","tag-pacific-coast-highway","tag-pch","tag-rincon-beach","tag-route-1","tag-santa-barbara","tag-seacliff","tag-surf","tag-ventura-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hizonphotography.com\/markets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}