Gray

Malibu City Limit — As always, it’s good to get oriented before you set out on a journey. In this case, the final destination was close at hand.

It was a gray day on Malibu beach. That’s not a bad thing, nor unusual around here. While the Valley swelters, the coast is protected from extreme heat by a marine layer that sometimes burns off by early afternoon – and sometimes not. Today, it did not. That meant temps all day stayed in the lower 70s, with an offshore breeze that made the RealFeel index somewhere in the mid-60s. I always swear I’m going to remember to bring a sweater when visiting California’s coastline. Invariably, I forget. Silly me. It’s so easy to get faked out by triple digits just over that first set of mountains.