As a newer resident of Los Angeles, I sometimes find the place overwhelming. Luckily, listeners of LAist’s daily talk show AirTalk with Larry Mantle recently and generously shared some of their favorite places to reset and find balance \u2014 from iconic vistas to some more personal picks.<\/p>\n
Embracing the natural word<\/p>\n
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Hikers utilize the trails at Griffith Park in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Many listeners touted the natural landscape of Southern California as being the key to their catharsis.<\/p>\n
Robert in Hollywood likes to ride his motorcycle out to the Malibu mountains. \u201cThere\u2019s a certain turnout where you can stop and in the spring you can look at all the mustards and the poppies. It\u2019s like a whole other world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Jennifer in Indian Wells takes her easel out and does “en plen aire” painting in the Santa Rosa Mountains. \u201cThat can transport me pretty easy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
True in High Desert heads to the Mormon Rocks in the Cajon Pass \u201cto hike and be with nature\u201d<\/p>\n
Lori in Studio City wrote, \u201cI am so fortunate that I just go to my backyard and enjoy the birds and squirrels and swaying trees. Living in the hills off Laurel Canyon in Studio City is heavenly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Being alone in a crowd<\/p>\n
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Metrolink train at Union Station.<\/p>\n
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Other listeners centered themselves by being around others. <\/p>\n
Roxanne in Redlands likes to take the MetroLink from San Bernardino to Union Station. \u201cI find my greatest peace being alone where there are as many people as people,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
A recurring theme was places where everyone was offline.<\/p>\n
Debbie in Lake Balboa said the Travel Town railroad museum reminds her of a different time. \u201cIt\u2019s a great place to go to watch families having a good time without screens in an old fashioned way,” she said. “Even though you\u2019re alone you have people around you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicholas in Venice Beach likes to watch the roller disco in Venice Beach \u2014 in person. \u201cA lot of things are online right now,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just nice to go out and see real people smiling\u2026there\u2019s a lot of community there.<\/p>\n
Listen to the full AirTalk segment for Larry\u2019s memories of listeners\u2019 favorite spot below:<\/p>\n
How do you restore your emotional and mental state after a chaotic or stressful day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a newer resident of Los Angeles, I sometimes find the place overwhelming. Luckily, listeners of LAist’s daily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[37791,48,52,51,37792,47,50,49,7454],"class_list":{"0":"post-62626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-airtalk","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-listener-suggestions","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news","16":"tag-peace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}