West Coast Sojourn

[helge]

Guess you can't be all bad when you can gather old friends around you like that.

Nice pics

[Edmond]

Yum.


Either this woman has very hairy fingers.




Or this man has very, very white nails.

[Neverna]

Great trip, great photos. Thanks for sharing, ao.

[Looper]

Champion fred AO



I cycled past your friends window about 30 years ago trying to avoid getting skittled over the cliff by the RV drivers and lumber trucks!

[malmomike77]

I cycled past your friends window about 30 years ago

I too have been past it but in a clapped out RV.


Live a little when you have earned it and you have, wish you many more trips back to the nongs and hopefully their nongs too.

[Joe 90]

Nice Scallops AO!
Bet they tasted great.

Had them for the first time last month and was seriously impressed!

I can only imagine his much fresher and tastier yours were.

[aging one]

So we drove down to LA got in Thursday night and had dinner with Vanessa. She had to work Friday so we had a plan to go to Griffith Park and hike up to the observatory. Just 4.5 K and up a few hundred meters. After just over half an hour there it was.



An amazingly accurate sundial on the grounds.



She had to have the Hollywood sign selfie, though was quite small.



A little closer to some domes.



Inside a very cool Tesla Coil. They switched it on developing 500,000 volts, but the shot sucked.



Then it was Saturday, the day we were allowed in Space X. There is no photography allowed inside so I have ripped off just a few photos of what we saw.X

Space X gear that our daughter had gotten for us.




We have arrived, the main building in Hawthorne Ca.



Just outside at Takeovers said is the first Falcon 9 to have returned to earth. Sadly we could not get inside the plexiglass as work was going on.






Dragon hanging from the ceiling. This was the first to go to the ISS.



Mission Control


Booster Assembly

She had planned a lunch in Malibu, only shot is the fresh seafood.



Pt Dume is a rugged area on the Malibu coast I always loved and so does the daughter.







Rich LA folk are buying up land in the Malibu canyons and planting vineyards along with building hill top mansions.




Sunday to Wat Thai and then a small beach to see kite surfing. The tall guy is Ness's boyfriend who is graduating from USC med school this year.

[bsnub]

Fantastic to see this post. Glad you did it.

[david44]

double post glitch

[david44]

Love the idea of walking across the bridge.

Great food and pix AO, can never understand why anyone who can afford health insurance would choose the 3rd world over N California.


Sounds good until you realize the noise from car decks, not for those afraid of heights, cycling is the way to go or on a Harley?

From the Russian River N of Marin Co to Russia (you can see it from here) in Alsaka is the best of America, N California N of Astoria, the Cscades , Portlands craft beer and wierdos , Seatlle then safe cool Vancouver Island, parts of downtown Vancouver spoiled by druggies around Gastown but the rest of BC fron Abbotsford thr Kelowna Okanagan vinyards right up the Inner Passage or Highways via Yukon to Alska.

Enjoy Ai theere are parts of central CA I like San Luis Opispo Big Sur Santa Barnara Solvang the rest is almost Mexico , my step bro and othe rfamily live nea rLA , once was enough

Marin County has great food , sailing and Nap avalley nearby well worth a visit.