My journey west has been a huge success for me, and that success can be summed up in one word:

OTTERS!

When I was little, like second grade maybe, I wrote a million reports on the wonderful and adorable sea mammal that uses a stone as a tool. Now, I’ve seen them live and in the wild frolicking in the kelp on the beaches of Monterey.

I’m seriously happy about seeing them.

There’s something great about getting to bear witness to a little, little kid dream inside of you.