Just a shot pit stop at Gilroy for something to drink on our long drive south. Hey, it's on the way.
Orange slushy or something.
I got a strawberry limeade.
We also grabbed a couple of Vietnamese sandwiches.
This something my sister has in her car. It's a little ceramic bobble head. Yes the elephant's little head bounces and makes a really annoying tinking noise. I am bored.
More flair my sister added to her car's interior. The back seat has at least four stuffed animals.
We're almost there!
Ha! Large pipes going over the hill near grape vines and oil pumps. Only in California.
We made it into LA traffic.
Johnnies Pastrami, where the pastrami is good and it's served by some of the original waitresses.
Driving to downtown LA in the morning, complete with smog and a six lane freeway.
Walt Disney Concert Hall.
One of the many bells indicating the original "El Camino Rea." You can see many along 101 and Santa Clara County.
New condo by Concerto.
Lunch time in Little Tokyo.
Mmm...ramen.
Mochi-lato? It's mochi filled with gelato! I heart pistachio mochi. :-)
Kona coffee, pistachio and cookies and cream.
La Brea Tar Pits.
It oozes out of the ground everywhere. And it smells like burning tires and asphalt. Yes, that's Hugh poking the tar. Yes it's sticky and yes he got it all over his hands.
Bubbling up to the surface.
No need to tell you where we went.
Rebuilding the sets that burned down last summer.
Ohhh, a car from one of my favorite movies.
From the Fast and the Furious movie.
A Jurassic Park cage.
Watch out, he squirting water!
Flash flood by flipping a switch.
Ship model from Jackson's King Kong.
Gaby's house from Desperate Housewives.
Pyscho's Bates Motel.
Set from World Of The Worlds.
More Japanese food, here's a stone pot of Japanese curry with a raw egg yolk. This is sooo Japanese.
There's the curry.
The Santa Monica Pier.
Santa Barbara coming up.
And we're here, sunny warm Santa Barbara.
La Mision de Santa Barbara.
Padre Junipero Serra, founder of the California Missions.
The alter inside the church.
Skulls and cross bones over the side entrance to the church from the cemetery.
Now we're in Solvang, CA. Portions of the movie Sideways was filmed here.
This is how they do beer here, not like the little sissy one I had on the right, 33 oz. vs 16 oz.
Yum.
La Mision de Santa Ines.
Oil fields in the middle of California.
We had to stop for a little gas and found a sign leading us here to San Ardo. Pay close attention the the school's mascot on top of the welcome sign.
Cute but scary.
Our last pit stop in Gilroy before heading home.
