1) There are hills and mountains, and then there is the Pacific Ocean. There is waaaay less in between than I thought. At some points there is no in between.
2) Television meteorologists in mid-southern CA have to work really hard to come up with new ways to make 4-5 degree temperature variations sound interesting and important.
3) Even if your flight gets rerouted and delayed twice, and you end up getting to your beach-front hotel 12 hours later than originally scheduled, bone-tired and dehydrated, you are still in a beach-front hotel at 65 degrees in early April.
Pics!
View from our hotel
Our hotel
View from the pier in Ventura
Looking back into Ventura from end of pier
My walk around downtown - beautiful
Santa Barbara
Dutch town of Solvang in the mountains/wine country
