Seconds With Steff

I reorganized all of our stuff, packed my box to mail home, prepped our route for today cause LA traffic is no joke, got an amazing night’s sleep, and we were off…

Well, it might never rain in Southern California, but the days do sure do start off cloudy. Fog embanked us as we left The Channel Islands area, so there was no chance of going to any vista point to see anything.

The first stop of the day was Mugu Missile Park. Long Island has something similar at home over by Grumman‘s old field. This is right outside of Naval base Ventura County Point Mugu.

I then made a split second decision to go see Point Dume again. I went in 2019 but didn’t love my pictures. My mother loved the Planet of the Apes movies, and this is where The final scene with Charlton Heston with the remnants of The State of Liberty was filmed.

On my way out, I found the door that started my collection.

Weirdly, there is a Muffler Man in Malibu feeling all Route 66!

Arriving in Santa Monica early, we decided to take on the 2 1/2 mile walk to the Venice Skatepark only to discover it was closed to film something and no one could tell us what…NDA…Blagh. We stood there for a while waiting for something to happen, but nothing never did. So if you see a movie, commercial, or show with the skate park with these colors you’ll know that I was there the day it was filming…

I promised Hunter a pedi-cab back to the pier, but they were no where to be found, so one Lyft later, I realized, it really is a long walk.

We then visited our friend Ian at 66 to Cali! He actually remembered us! It was great to see him and catch up on the last two years. Hopefully he reads this tonight and leaves the comment! Then we had our picture taken at the end sign again.

Then it was a matter of finding our way out and staying on Highway One which was not the easiest thing to do. I had programmed the GPS last night because it did not want me to take this way!

After a stop at the LAX In-N-Out, we were headed to my favorite store in California: Huntington Surf and Sand. I got Hunter six T-shirts, a button-down RVA and a hoodie for $200. That was with tax which California tax is almost 10% so I did fairly well. I was so excited about the clothes, I never took a pic. But I did at Inis!!

Inis is my favourite perfume in the world, and chance would have it, practically next to HSS! The manager was lovely and gave me samples. It was the perfect pick me up!

We then drove the final stretch to Dana Point, which took us quite a while because traffic was insane. Laguna Beach took 30 minutes to go 5 miles. But we got through and took the proper end of Pacific Coast Highway pic. The lighting was terrible so I included my 2022 pic that I took not knowing what it was other than a PCH marker.

After a little more driving, Hunter and I had a delicious dinner! He got lobster mac and cheese, and I ate kale! It was completely an accident, and I’ll never do it again, but I my totally ate it!

Now come on y’all… you know we’re not done yet!

We will be completing the Pacific Northwest start all the way down to San Diego on this trip!

However… We’re going to take a two day breather to hang out in my favorite place in the entire world. I think I have a couple of those at this point, but this is my oldest favorite! Wanna guess what it is?This is our digs for the next three nights!

So the next two days will be very light on blogging. Early mornings and late nights are not going to equal a lot of blogging, but I’ll get as many pictures as I can up!

Oh, and I want to hear what you’re guessing so comment and let me know what you think. And if you already know, tell me you’re keeping the secret!

Vertullo Summary – Traffic and a lack of skateboarders.