This is the first view I've gotten of the beach town where I grew up since 2002, thanks to the California Coastal Records Project.

The place is hardly recognizable but I can still pick out the elementary school on the left where I first fell in love with learning and can spot the red roofed stucco houses in the back left corner where I got my first boom box, fell in love with the Beach Boys and realized what it meant to have a forever friend.

We may be just getting the technology to have pictures of all the places we've ever loved, but think about years from now. People could potentially keep pictures of their hometowns and watch the landscape changes like height marks on a wall. All this information is just so beautiful.