{"id":319,"date":"2010-07-18T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2010-07-18T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T14:10:00","slug":"petaluma-to-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Petaluma to Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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I have written about Los Angeles and other events, but not reported on how I got from one place to the other.  We decided to drive route one,<\/a> along the coast. I had never done it and of course since I was a teenager I have seen images of Big Sur that captured my imagination. We planned two days, which was barely enough as I wanted to stop to photograph every few minutes.
  We also stopped at a number of towns and cities along the way. As with people, first impressions can be misleading and puzzling. I did not like Carmel particularly, I did like Santa Barbara. Both place are indeed very pretty, but somehow a little too clean. I am not sure how one can criticize a town for being clean. My hometown of Newport I find not clean enough. Perhaps I am just difficult to please. I could find myself living in Santa Barbara, which is full of architectural gems.
    Our older son, Stefan, lives in Los Angeles and has a sound studio<\/a>. Besides visiting him, the purpose of my visit was to lend a hand helping in any way I could during our short trip there. He is in the process of expanding the studio. He and his wife have also just to a new apartment. Bernadette, my wife painted and I sanded, upholstered and whatever else needed to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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