Crestline Climb

by Kimberly Guthrie (United States of America)

I didn't expect to find USA

My travel story, came to me just a few months after 18, with my first real love and adult relationship. I was small town girl, who had not vered far from the airport light of a Midwestern town with population, 7000 people in the whole county! I was 19, moved out the day I turned 18,and into our little one bedroom house, by a little Creek on the edge of the mainstream of town. He drove a semi and I worked as an in home can for a quadrapalegic, who was very interesting to say the least. He came home every four five days, drove from Midwest to West coast, hauling produce, refrigerated products. I was burnt out on just about everything when he asked if wanted to go to California, with him! Well of course I did, it was exciting I had never really been anywhere except Texas when I was three and as far down to Alabama when my mother and step father got divorced four years prior. We were in nogalas ,arizona delivering produce to a produce house, and on our way to Orange county California to pick up his next load, when we stopped he asked me if I had ever seen the ocean and I said only on TV! He said no way your bratty self never been to Florida or Disney Land I was like no, I got gymnastics, he like well if we could see over the crestline, you could see the ocean! I was like noway, he said I get stopped up here we will see if anyway to walk over by the crestlune and see the water! Well I was bound and determined, I will backflip over the rocks and the crestline if nessasary, he was like slow down Tonto,it way farther than it looks and may be a tide and those Rick's may not be that stable and ya fall in there your gone, and I don't need your mom saying I pushed you or made you fall cause ya know she hates me! So we get to the place and wouldn't ya know it, the workers were like ocean, just right over hill, on other side of the treeline, and across the rocks. Be careful climbing on the rocks some move very easily and some have no support under them. It looked just to be real close but it was about a mile walk to the hill and a quarter mile to the rocks and the rocks even with the horizon. I topped the top of the boulders they called rocks and there it was, blue mezmerizing, and water as far as the eye could see. I was there overlooking one of the most beautiful scarey, natural magnificent , living, growing forever changing God's works of pure and authentic mystical amazing creations. This had changed the utter core of my mind my heart my soul! In an instant, I was in complete awe with inner peace and traquility like I had never known, it was like a piece of me had found it's way back, from emptiness, confusion, and lack of ambition. That day I realized how minute and small we I really am compared to God's creations on this planet we call home. It brought me home even though was a place I had never seen or known, parts of me that had been lost confused, illusioned, had just been reinfused. All the colors of blues from the water to the sky, the hues of every color showed in this picture perfect new love affair, for the oceans air, there was never anything to this day that has ever compared to the way my soul felt right then and there! Sad to say but not even giving birth to my two children, completed me the way seeing that great wide open of shore and seas, that I had never imagined or fathomed, what would happen to my spirit, that day! It was utterly magical, replenishing and fulfilling like nothing I had ever fantasized or imagined, and I don't know but it was all that was sad in me went away, and all the hurt resentment and anger from my parents divorce and the unknown emotional trauma it had on me, just vanished. The rock at the crestline over the hill, changed my heart life mind body and soul, shorter than the time it took us to climb, one of Earth's beauties, that I had to climb to find, and it is still just a fresh and divine in my mind, all I do is hit rewind.