TIMELINE
- 8:30 a.m. Wake up
- 10:00 a.m. Breakfast at Starbucks #25941
- 10:15 a.m. Depart for La Quinta hotel
- 11:00 a.m. Arrive at correct La Quinta LAX hotel
- Noon Depart for Santa Cruz
- 2:00 p.m. Snack at Petro #327, Grapevine (Lebec)
- 6:30 p.m. Arrive Santa Cruz, get cats
- 6:45 p.m. Home
NOTES
TIMELINE
- 8:00 a.m. Wake up
- 9:30 a.m. Breakfast at Starbucks #25941
- 10:30 a.m. Depart for Santa Monica Pier
- 4:00 p.m. Arrive Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 7:30 p.m. Dinner at the Sizzler
- 10:00 p.m. Arrive La Quinta hotel
- Midnight Back at our hotel
NOTES
- Pallisades
- Route 66 terminus sign
- Lost iPhone
- Playing on the beach, building with wet sand
- Shaved ice (rainbow)
- Movies: It's a Mad Mad World, Rio Bravo (Brad's favorite)
- Buck Owens and the Bakersfield sound
- Playdoh
- Bunny (Ruby)
- Saying hello to Violet and Jenny via video chat
- Modern (Georgia) vs. Traditional (Brad) Australian: Mate, stubbie (beer),
- Beer:
- Regional where Brad lives: Pint, Middy, pony, shot
- Other: Pint, half-pint,
- Stubbie vs. long neck
- MYass (McDonalds logo + town of Yass)
- Homing pigeons nearby pooping all over their solar panels, etc.
TIMELINE
- 7:30 a.m. Wake up
- 8:15 a.m. Breakfast at Friendship Motor Inn
- 10:30 a.m. Small Mang keychain plush at Line Friends Popup, Hollywood
- 10:45 a.m. Gift at Ghirardelli on Hollywood Boulevard
- 1:15 p.m. Lunch at Bibigo, Westfield Culver City mall
- 2:00 p.m. Check-in to Crystal Inn & Suites
- 5:30 p.m. Edward Vincent Jr Park
- 6:45 p.m. Dinner at Sizzler
- 9:15 p.m. Back at hotel
NOTES
- Hollywood stars:
- Dr Suess
- Mister Rogers
- Spike Jones
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Toshiro Mifune
- Groucho Marx
- Learned about Line Friends
- Had lunch and dinner with Dawn's friend Jill and her family: Brad, Georgia, and Ruby
TIMELINE
- 9:00 a.m. Wake up
- 9:30 a.m. Breakfast at Friendship Motor Inn
- 10:15 a.m. Arrive La Brea Tar Pits / Page Museum
- 11:00 a.m. "Titans of the Ice Age 3D"
- 1:00 p.m. Excavators Tour (Page Museum)
- 3:45 p.m. Arrive Griffith Observatory
- 4:00 p.m. Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater film: "The Once and Future Griffith Observatory"
- 4:30 p.m. Lunch at Cafe at the End of the Universe
- 5:15 p.m. Planetarium show: "Light of the Valkyries - Our 75th anniversary show reveals the wonders of the northern lights."
- 6:45 p.m. Leave for hotel
NOTES
- Thunder and lightning started on way home
- Listened to classical music on radio KUSC FM 91.5
- La Brea Tar Pits / Page Museum
- Tar pull interactive exhibit clearly demonstrates how less than 6 inches of sticky asphalt would doom nearly anything
- Learned difference between asphalt (natufal) and tar (result of human processing)
- Asphalt bubbling to the surface on the grounds and marked with green traffic cones
- We briefly walked around the outside of the LACMA--very nice and worth a future visit
- Some animatronics
- Griffith Observatory
- Tesla coil
- Food very good but very expensive
- Beautiful sunset and view
- As we exited, listened to warm up at the Greek Theater ("5 Seconds of Summer with The Aces")
- Learned about radiocarbon dating--it's a dating web site for radioactive C14 looking for the right Oxygen partner to make radioactive CO2
TIMELINE
- 6:00 a.m. Awake
- 7:15 a.m. Breakfast
- 8:00 a.m. Checkout
- 10:45 a.m. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf #130 in Santa Barbara, for coffee
- 11:55 a.m. Missy's Cupcake Creations in Oxnard
- 2:00 p.m. Early check-in at Friendship Inn
- 5:30 p.m. Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken
- 5:45 p.m. Back at hotel
NOTES
- Gus's:
- Dawn: 2 Piece White, Mac 'n Cheese and beans, Firestone 805 beer
- Kevin: 1/2 chicken, Mac 'n Cheese and beans, greens, unsweetened ice tea
- Dessert: Chocolate chess pie with ice cream
- Missy's:
- Chocolate Chocolate Thunder
- German Chocolate
- Watched Teen Titans and NASA X review of the Soyuz failure
TIMELINE
- 6:00 a.m. Awake
- 7:15 a.m. Drop off cats at VCA Pet Hospital
- 7:45 a.m. Peet's Coffee downtown for coffee and snacks
- 8:15 a.m. Home to retrieve forgotten Anker PowerCore charger
- 9:47 a.m. Rest break at Big Sur River Inn: coffee, snacks
- 12:30 p.m. Arrive Hearst Castle
- 4:30 p.m. Depart Hearst Castle
- 5:30 p.m. Arrive hotel
- 6:15 p.m. Dinner at Rosa's Italian Restaurant: split sjde of broccoli and Pasta California - $16.95 artichoke hearts, shitake mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes in a light cream sauce, penne pasta
- 7:15 p.m. Hot Topic at Pismo Beach Premium Outlets (13th Doctor accessories for Dawn)
- 8:15 p.m. Back at hotel
NOTES
- Landslide at Mud Creek mostly repaired; minor delay
- Weather partly sunny with spots of light mist
- First time for both of us south of Big Sur on Highway 1
- Cambria Scarecrows
- Hearst Castle Neptune Pool filled just four weeks earlier, after repairs lasting for some time
