| I split the coasts, between Boston and Los Angeles. I | | | | presented with an elegant invitation to my colleague's |
| spend roughly half the year in either location, attending | | | | wedding in Marin Del Rey, I was delighted to finally |
| to both personal and business matters. So, having had | | | | have the opportunity to see this much-vaunted beach |
| the good fortune to be invited to a colleague's wedding | | | | community. |
| on the West Coast, I jumped at the opportunity to | | | | To my surprise, however, I would not have the |
| witness, firsthand, the sights and sounds of a bona fide | | | | opportunity to see much of the beach -- or the city for |
| Marina Del Rey wedding. | | | | that matter. Instead, I would have to settle for some |
| Los Angeles entails a massive expanse of real estate. | | | | breathtaking vies of the Marina. This, of course, was |
| Everything from the San Fernando Valley to the | | | | because the wedding and reception were hosted on a |
| reaches of Pasadena and south to Long Beach are | | | | luxury, thirty-five-foot yacht. Though I don't consider |
| fair game. While it may not look like a terribly large | | | | myself a squeamish man, I am averse to motion |
| cross-section of land, given the limitations of traffic, it | | | | sickness. So, the prospect of spending an afternoon |
| could well take you more than two hours to drive from | | | | and long evening on-board a boat, albeit a yacht, was |
| Santa Monica to Pasadena -- and perhaps as much | | | | not an attractive one. That being said, I must say, it |
| as three from Malibu to Long Beach. So, when I was | | | | was a phenomenal event. |