Although there have been many times where I have come face to face with the sublime in my daily life, the feeling of extreme awe and wonder that I felt when walking down the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California.  This was the first time that I had ever been off the East Coast so because of that almost everything I saw I thought to be amazing and superior to everything here in New York.  However when we got to the pier and I looked up and to my right, I saw THE most beautiful sight I have ever seen still to this day.  I have seen a beach before and I have seen mountains before but to see them together, coexisting in the same environment, literally blew my mind.  The beauty was absolutely breath-taking, I walked down the boardwalk fixated on my view, still unable to comprehend how nature could be so gentle yet untamed at the same time.  Whenever I look back at the pictures I took of this view I almost tear up because of how lucky I was to be able to witness a view that I could only imagine would be fit for a super-natural being.