Travel Reference
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The People & Way of Life
In the coastal California dream world, you wake up, have a shot of wheat-
grass juice, and roll down to the beach where the surf's up. Lifeguards wave
as they go jogging by in bikinis and Speedos. You skateboard down the
boardwalk to yoga class, where everyone admires your downward dog. After-
wards, a food truck pulls up with your favorite:
kalbi
(Korean barbecue short-
rib) tacos. But wait a sec, can anyone actually make those California dreams
come true here?
Living the Dream
Let's keep dreaming. Napping on the beach afterward, you awake to find a casting agent
hovering over you, blocking your sunlight, imploring you to star in a movie based on a
best-selling comic book. You say you'll have your lawyer look over the papers, and by your
lawyer you mean your roommate who plays one on TV. The conversation is cut short when
you get a text to meet up with some friends at a bar.
That casting agent was a stress case - she wanted an answer in, like, a month - so you
swing by your medical marijuana dispensary and a tattoo parlor to get 'Peace' inscribed on
your bicep as a reminder to yourself to stay chill. At the bar, you're called onstage to play a
set with the band, and afterward you complain to the drummer about how the casting agent
harshed your mellow. She recommends a wine-country getaway, but you're already doing
that Big Sur primal-scream chakra-cleansing retreat this weekend.
You head back to your beach house to update your status on your social-networking pro-
file, simultaneously alerting your 10,000 Twitter followers to the major events of the day:
'Killer taco, solid downward dog, peace tattoo, movie offer.' Then you repeat your nightly
self-affirmations: 'I am a child of the universe…I am blessed, or at least not a New York-
er…om.'
