Honeymoon Travelog – Day 1: San Francisco, CA to Calabasas, CA
Posted on October 2, 2006 by Tito
I will try and put together some posts recapping Monica and my recent jaunt across the American Southwest, for my benefit more than anybody elses. What follows is a complete, honest and accurate recap of all events that have transpired, one day at a time. Valerie Bertinelli, this one’s for you.
Date: Saturday September, 16th
Start City: San Francisco, CA
End City: Calabasas, CA
Miles Logged: 407
We took 101 south until just north of Monterey, where we switched over to the more scenic, if slower, Highway 1 South. I’ve been on a couple of roads, and I can think of few, if any, that are better than the California coast. This is where Eric Bachmann’s To The Races
Stopped for lunch along the touristy stretch outside of Cambria, CA, not too far from Hearst Castle. We’d been to the castle on a previous trip so did not stop this time round. I had a surprisingly good turkey sandwhich from a pizza place.
En route, we also stopped in Solvang, CA … just in time for “Danish Days”. I did not get a danish, but I did have the pleasure of a fellow tourist barging into my non-locking bathroom stall.
Road-weary, for dinner we ate at the Baja Fresh near out hotel in Calabasas— verrry good in a non-legit taco bell kind of way. Monica tells me that Calabasas is where Jessica Simpson lies and/or lays. I wonder if this is also the home of the toad jumping contest. This site was chosen as our first stop because of:
1. It’s relatively cheap accomodations
2. It’s location near our first planned stop of the trip for the next day – a Hindu temple in Calabasas.
We saw a curious site on the dining patio at Baja Fresh. A couple had a baby stroller with a dog inside it. In fact, we didn’t realize that it was a dog (no baby) until late in the meal, as the mosquito netting cover was zipped shut. The “dad” (who bore a curious resemblance to Brian Wilson) had even been “rocking” the stroller as if to lullaby a child. It was all a scene much weirder than it sounds. After dinner we thought about seeing The Black Dahlia which was showing nearby, but instead gave up after a horrible parking situation. Our proximity to Mulholland Drive also launched our first playing of Full Moon Fever
Morale and Rations remain high.
Next: Day 2 – Calabasas, CA to Las Vegas, NV
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