I’m here, woohoo! I’m sitting in the hostel near Bowers Museum, happily nibbling on my beef stew and playing with the hostel’s wifi. This is so incredibl cool! I love tech. ;)<\/p>\n
The hostel is incredibly nice — this is my first time in one, and I’m quite impressed. I’m sitting in the living room, and there’s an attractive porch outside I could sit at instead if I wished. The kitchen seems to have been designed for people no taller than about 5′, but past that it’s clean and well stocked. I’m very much enjoying myself so far.<\/p>\n
The drive was very nicely uneventful, coming in at almost exactly 6 hours. The terrain I drove through was, on the whole, either a lovely gold of shorn hay and dying grass on the wrinkled hillsides, or shaggy green. There was a lot of that, and it was a very relaxing drive down 5, bracketed on both sides by orchards, vineayards, or fields of other crops. I live at sea level, so it was noticeable to me when I got up to over 4000′ as I crossed the Tejon Pass into the LA valley. The hills are gorgeous: rumpled and wrinkled like an old bed with the sheets cast casually aside. In places they’re scraggly with patches of undergrowth, like a scruffy mutt that’s not been properly shorn, and in others they’re covered with a thick green fuzz of trees.<\/p>\n
Sunset was beautiful, with the hills in front of me covered with what looked like a lavender and soft gray shawl of twilight and distant rain, while behind me the soft gray-white clouds covered the sun but poured out molten gold through a tear in the bottom of their shroud.<\/p>\n
Getting late here. More tomorrow! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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