Our plan was to drive down the Pacific Coast Highway and cut across to Santa Barbara where we would shoot straight down into Riverside. However, the road that we wanted to use to get to Santa Barbara was closed due to a brush fire that had been burning for a month or two. So we had to double back and eat up about an hour of driving time.
This put us on the 101. By the way, that's the thing around here. At home we say "Take 495 to route 2 all the way to 128". Here they say "Take the 91 to the 101 and stay on that until you hit the PCH". We're in "the" territory. In fact, it seems like the entire country, save New England is "the" territory.
As we were driving along "the" 101 further south we saw more of the cliffside vistas and would occasionally get out and take some pictures. This one stop we made we heard
the most peculiar sound from below and realized that there were seals parked out on the rocks below. And flying around us at eye level was a California Condor. Wicked cool.
We drove along for a while until we saw a huge throng of people parked aside the road and taking pictures on the beach. I looked ahead and saw that they were photographing seals. But these seals seemed too big to be seen from far away. It turned out they were elephant seals. Never thought we'd see those in the wild.
The 101 drives right through Hollywood. We were driving on it at about 10:00 at night, and the traffic nightmares we'd heard of were not to be seen. Not much of Hollywood was not to be seen either, because it was dark. But inevitably my car was hit by Lindsey Lohan. Paris Hilton and Britney Spears were in the car too. Phil Spector denied it ever happened.
A little while later we were there, in Riverside, home of Uncle Rich and Aunt Chris. We talked for about a half hour and then crashed. Rightly so.
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Looks like the condor is carrying around more electronics than you guys. Are you sure he wasn't radio controlled???
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