Santa Barbara

It's heating up in southern California. Today it hit 80 and the temperature will be in the high 80's by Tuesday. Since it was Sunday, we were hoping to do something as a group but Betty still hadn't rebounded. So off Dawn and I went to Santa Barbara. This is an hour plus drive up the coast and the traffic was heavy but moving. When we got to Santa Barbara, we parked at the pier and walked about the marina.

It was lunch by the time we arrived and we thought we'd eat at Brophy Brothers, but alas, there was a 45 minute wait and it was super hot inside the restaurant. So we left a did a little drive around downtown Santa Barbara.

We were a little surprised by the number of oil rigs off the shore of Santa Barbara.

With a cruise ship in the harbour, the town was packed, so we headed up into the hills towards Montecilo. This is Oprah country and after driving in the hills we could imagine the setting for her estate, but of course we would never be able to find her home.

As well as the huge estates, there were numerous ranches up in the hills. This is also where Ellen had a ranch. By the time we got back on the 101 to LA, it was still bunged up, so we escaped the 101 and took the Pacific Coast Highway - #1 - (PCH) for the remainder of the trip. Of course we had our share of sites along the PCH, like the hot cars and the Malibu stilt homes.

That was a Lamborghini, by the way, in the previous photo. We got back to Brentwood in time for Happy Hour and ate at home yet again. It was a long driving day, but pretty amazing!