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I started this year making one of my life’s dream real: doing a solo road trip through the West Coast of the United States. Travelling alone is always a challenge for our social human minds; maybe that is why I have always think I had to do it. I was so excited that I could not sleep the night before of the flight, nor in the plane! So when I get to Los Angeles, my first stop, I felt it was all a dreamy film, I went to the hostel through the skyscrapers of L.A. Downtown totally feeling I was in Blade Runner. After three days starting to discover the differences between Spain, my home country, and the United States (I was shocked even with the floor tiles and the cars) my adventure started: I rented a four-wheel drive car and took the Highway 1, which goes literally next to the Pacific Ocean all over California, what took me 2 more days. My first stop was El Matador Beach in Malibu, where I took many pictures between the rocks that make that beach so special and I felt this sensation of the never-ending summer of Southern California. How free I felt! After, I stopped to see many other beaches and villages, like Santa Barbara, where the amusing International Film Festival and its street shops filled the place; Solvang, a beautiful little Danish town, full of old mills, lights and antiques shops; Morro Bay, a peaceful fishing village,… And I found a big beach on the way with a giant elephant seal rookery, where the female elephant seals were breastfeeding their babies, a spectacle of nature. However, one of my favorite stops along this incredible Highway 1 was the Calla Lily Valley, which I found on some lost internet forum like a hidden gem: and it was! It is a little magical place between two cliffs next to the ocean, were the calla lily starts to grow wild in January and full the valley with its white color. The access is difficult to found, but I had the luck to found a photographer who was going there to catch the sunset and showed me the path. One of the best things to do in the Pacific Coast is watching whales, so when I got to Monterey, my last stop of the coast, I could not lost the opportunity. I got a ticket for a whale watching tour and did a 4 hour whale search, where we saw humpback and grey whales: such an experience! Finally, I arrived in San Francisco, with a beautiful sunset by the Golden Gate. I was there for five days, spending one of them in Alcatraz and the others discovering my dream city, meeting people from all over the world and enjoying a lot. After all, I took my car again and headed to Yosemite, the famous and spectacular National Park with enormous rock mountains, bears, forests and waterfalls. There you can feel how little you are and how beautiful the nature can be, the greatness of that place can't be described with words. The next day, the Sequoia National Park, with the famous General Sherman giant Sequoia and the best sunset I have ever seen, on the top of a mountain, with all that giant trees and an open view of another mountain forests between a sea of clouds. However, I had half of my adventure to be done: Arizona, Utah and Nevada were waiting for me!