...and by 'just traveled' I actually mean that I've been in California for a whole week. I've decided to split posts up to catch you up to speed on. So here we go!
First and foremost you should know that driving to California is not for the faint of heart. It's not because you are trapped in a car for about thirty hours with your increasingly more senile parents, oh no. It's the fact that 93% of the journey you are traveling through NOTHINGNESS!! (also known as desert country). Most of the entire Southwest looks pretty much like this:
Can you imagine living in this? The only thing that has made this impossible journey bearable is the fact the Half-Priced Books has stocked up on their Harry Potter audiobooks (on cassette because no one have afford to buy the CDS, even at half price...) Audiobooks might be the most amazing thing of my life. Seriously! You are just listening along as the reader dude does different voices and finally understand why it takes some people like a week to finish an HP instead of the usual night...
We did have to drive through a crazy lightning storm in New Mexico. It was the most terrifying and awe-inspiring thing I've ever seen. These bolts of lightning are as tall as any skyscraper in New York City and connected the sky with the earth. They were striking ground literally in every direction and it felt very close to our cars! The vastness of the sky in the flat desert is overwhelming, almost intimidating...like it is about to swallow you or crush you.
Finally, we actually arrived in California to discover that most of "sunny California" is actually sunny because most of it is desert. Did you know that California's agriculture is so huge that they literally stop you at the border of the state and search your car for produce and plants? Crazy! Somewhere in the middle of of the journey, the desert turned into mountains! This is a picture of Valencia's mountains with Six Flags Magic Mountain in the foreground (while some people enjoy roller coasters, I enjoy breathing and living more so living right next is Six Flags is not excellent news for me)
Valencia is 30 miles away from downtown LA and 20 miles away from the Santa Monica beaches and is pretty much amazing. Wanna hear more about Valencia, the places I've visited, and CalArts? Tune in next time, ya'll!
