My friend, Matt, and I were hiking up in the Hollywood Hills the other day and decided to take a trip to the Hollywood Sign. It used to be illegal to hike to the Hollywood sign, but I heard a rumor that it's now allowed. Thus, we headed up that way. (I figured we could just turn back if we saw no trespassing signs).
Now, I didn't see any signs, but people obviously don't do this very often as Matt and I seemed to (at times) be making our own path. There were quite a few times when I thought "I'm pretty sure if I lost my footing I would slide right down the side of this hill."
When Matt and I finally got to the end of our hike, we sat back and took in the most amazing view of Los Angeles I had ever seen… and I'm not exaggerating. To our right, the ocean went on as far as the eye could see, the valley spread out in front of us and downtown stood strong to our left.
Absolutely gorgeous.
And there we were, exhausted, sweaty, covered head to toe in dirt and absolutely intoxicated by the view.
There were plenty of times when we thought about stopping, wondering if it was safe, wondering if we should turn back, but it wasn't until we took in that view that I realized one amazing thing. You only get to the truly great places when you keep going at the point where everyone else stops. Keep going.
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