Pasadena
“The jet wheels hit the tarmac with a 2.5 Richter rumble.
Home. It’s so bright out here, so the opposite of my green summer getaway.
I dig into my bag for sunglasses and come up empty. In a flash, I can see them, three thousand miles away, lying on my borrowed bed. Figures. I squint and make my way to the cabstand.
When the 101 Freeway gives way to the 134, my pulse quickens. We speed through Glendale and Eagle Rock, the smudgy soup bowl of Downtown LA spread out to my right. The hil...lside on my left is blasted, the golden-brown grass singed to a blackened streak of a cigarette-caused wildfire that probably shut down traffic for most of rush hour. I lower my window and try to smell the smoke, but it’s long gone, eradicated by LA’s finest. I close the window. It’s almost good to be home.
Almost.
And then we’re at Orange Grove, peeling off the freeway to the south, and a lump the size of a lemon hits my throat.MoreLess
Home. It’s so bright out here, so the opposite of my green summer getaway.
I dig into my bag for sunglasses and come up empty. In a flash, I can see them, three thousand miles away, lying on my borrowed bed. Figures. I squint and make my way to the cabstand.
When the 101 Freeway gives way to the 134, my pulse quickens. We speed through Glendale and Eagle Rock, the smudgy soup bowl of Downtown LA spread out to my right. The hil...lside on my left is blasted, the golden-brown grass singed to a blackened streak of a cigarette-caused wildfire that probably shut down traffic for most of rush hour. I lower my window and try to smell the smoke, but it’s long gone, eradicated by LA’s finest. I close the window. It’s almost good to be home.
Almost.
And then we’re at Orange Grove, peeling off the freeway to the south, and a lump the size of a lemon hits my throat.MoreLess
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