Random Thoughts or Whatever
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spicer
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If you don't know where you're going any road will get you there.
You’ll know when you get there !
nailer
audionerd
Where is there?
One time, I went up to Mount Wilson after a rainstorm. It was so clear that I could see Catalina Island 25 miles away with binoculars.
I used my most powerful binoculars and looked far in the distance. I could see the back of the head of someone waving on a mountaintop ---- which was odd considering I was waving at the time.
But I digress...
usedto
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You forget about the atmospheric compression effect.Either you're wrong, or the Four Preps lied.
usedto
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Has absolutely NOTHING to do with distance.You forget about the atmospheric compression effect.
That's what she said!Has absolutely NOTHING to do with distance.
spicer
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On a day like that the island seemed like one could swim to it from the beach. Used to go up Signal Hill, one could see Catalina, the peninsula, up and down the coast and the mountains behind almost as though you could walk to them, sometimes covered in snow to the base.
A beautiful, clear, cool day almost makes living in LA worth it.
Obvious you don’t know cause you’re not there yet ! Lol
I'm there, and your Mom told me to remind you not to stay out late!Are you? Is anyone?...
spicer
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One had to be there to know. Even roadside strawberry, avocado, orange stands, right down the street, next to the fields, orchards, incredible place to live, at one time.
spicer
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Unless you don't know where you're at, likely if you don't know where you're going.
Mystic
We're all born mad
It had its moments. I was fond of the areas around 29 Palms, but many years ago. 1998 and later, forget it, even (especially?) at the coastal communities, including much-heralded Santa Barbara, where I lived almost five years ... the last of my 14-year residential penance (for ???) in So Cal.
spicer
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Yeah, not being cynical, not at all, but anything 90s and it was, for the most part, gone, on the steep curve of downhill, receding, even in memory of many, if not most who experienced an earlier period. Little by little it changed till no longer recognizable.
Residential penance... penance, that's interesting. Santa Barbara, Ojai, all that comes to mind. Anyway, beautiful area.
Mystic
We're all born mad
I actually preferred Ojai @ that time, but 'm (almost) certain it'd make me puke these days.
Carpenteria was the "last good place still standing" when I booked Cal and The USA in 2014 ... Carpenteria was also ~ 85% Latino, so there ya go ... still well-based bunch @ 2014.
