ShonTron
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When I had escaped from LA, I took Highway 1 north through Malibu, and then up into Santa Barbara. As Highway 1 does not follow the coast well from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo, I took the faster 101 (a freeway, but not completely so, more like Highway 11 north of Gravenhurst). Then back along 1 through what has to be one of the greatest drives anywhere.
It was raining as I drove down from the San Fernando Valley to Malibu, then it cleared up. Topanga Canyon Road was a real beauty, but it was drizzling, so no pics there!
Malibu
Santa Barbara, where it started to rain again (I thought it never rained in Southern California!). Almost everything in the downtown is Mission-style. The Mission itself is aways from the core, up in the hills.
The Mission itself.
Hearst Castle. A momument to the wealth of William Randoloph Hearst, until he ran out of money (there's some unfinished rooms and some walls of bare concrete). Rosebud!
Looking up towards a guest house.
Hearst's digs.
A few miles down the road is a popular hangout for Elephant Seals.
San Jose. Nice town, but the area exploded in growth since the sixties, so Downtown San Jose is really small for its size (920,000 city, over 2M metro). Interesting set up for its light rail - runs down one way streets downtown, in centre of street ROWs and expressway medians otherwise.
At least someone's got a winning hockey team. And I bet the tickets are cheaper too.
The VTA even has interior bike racks. Bikes allowed all times of day.
I also pay homage to Apple and Silicon Valley by doing a circumnavigation of Infinite Loop in Cupertino.
I also find the Googleplex to complain about Toronto's really outdated satellite images. But there's no parking anywhere! The Googleplex (about 10 buildings) is the most disorganized, most car dependant office conglommeration I've seen.
And the last place I stop before hitting SF city limits is Stanford. I check my email at the Apple Store at the adjacent mall, which is old-school outdoors.
Stanford is eexacly how I would imagine California doing University of Waterloo.
It was around here that I was inspired by the local Transit agency (SamTrans) for a new nickname. spmarshall never worked that well.
Next: San Francisco
It was raining as I drove down from the San Fernando Valley to Malibu, then it cleared up. Topanga Canyon Road was a real beauty, but it was drizzling, so no pics there!
Malibu
Santa Barbara, where it started to rain again (I thought it never rained in Southern California!). Almost everything in the downtown is Mission-style. The Mission itself is aways from the core, up in the hills.
The Mission itself.
Hearst Castle. A momument to the wealth of William Randoloph Hearst, until he ran out of money (there's some unfinished rooms and some walls of bare concrete). Rosebud!
Looking up towards a guest house.
Hearst's digs.
A few miles down the road is a popular hangout for Elephant Seals.
San Jose. Nice town, but the area exploded in growth since the sixties, so Downtown San Jose is really small for its size (920,000 city, over 2M metro). Interesting set up for its light rail - runs down one way streets downtown, in centre of street ROWs and expressway medians otherwise.
At least someone's got a winning hockey team. And I bet the tickets are cheaper too.
The VTA even has interior bike racks. Bikes allowed all times of day.
I also pay homage to Apple and Silicon Valley by doing a circumnavigation of Infinite Loop in Cupertino.
I also find the Googleplex to complain about Toronto's really outdated satellite images. But there's no parking anywhere! The Googleplex (about 10 buildings) is the most disorganized, most car dependant office conglommeration I've seen.
And the last place I stop before hitting SF city limits is Stanford. I check my email at the Apple Store at the adjacent mall, which is old-school outdoors.
Stanford is eexacly how I would imagine California doing University of Waterloo.
It was around here that I was inspired by the local Transit agency (SamTrans) for a new nickname. spmarshall never worked that well.
Next: San Francisco
