Up
early,
into the sunshine,
rendezvousing with John for
coffee at White Rabbit,
returning
west on
10,
picking up
Harriet at the hotel
then,
off,
via
210,
into
Los Angeles
on
134,
101,
south
through
Sepulveda
on
405,
before 10 again briefly toward
Route 1
at
Santa
Monica,
northwest to
Topanga
and
Reel Inn for chowder.
Continuing
up
the
Coast,
a
coffee stop at
Los Trancas
beyond Malibu,
then
a
sortie
re
Point Mugu
State Park's
Sycamore Canyon
in
the
western
Santa
Monica
Mountains.
Further,
La
Jolla
Valley,
rounding
round to the
Oxnard Plain,
Ventura,
picking up 101 again
against the Rincon Cliffs,
eventually to
Santa Barbara
for a
supply
stop.
Anon,
west
below
the
Santa Ynez
Goleta Pass,
back
onto
1,
winding
down
towards
Salsipuedes
("Get-Out-If-You-Can")
Canyon
towards Lompoc,
across
the
rolling
Santa Maria
lowlands,
narrowing beside the Coast Ranges once more at
Pismo Beach,
Avila
Canyon
to
San Luis Obispo,
checking out the Madonna Inn,
before
checking
into
accomodations,
and
returning
for
a
colorful
dinner.
Lights
out.
High 97 north on the 82nd day of summer (29 days 80+, 10 90-or-beyond), 85 Redlands, 76 San Luis Obispo -- beginning the orchestral parts to Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232,
and doing the first two scene's
stagings....
