There really is a Rancho Cucamonga. (Sounds like a place that would have a retirement home for aging Chimpanzee actors.)
Thousand Oaks, Ca doesn't have 1000 oak trees, at least not that we found.
If you saw the old comedy movie "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World" you might remember them digging up the buried treasure under the BIG W in a park in Santa Rosita. We looked at the map trying to find Santa Rosita which was a town on the ocean near the Mexican border. We were in San Diego so Santa Rosita should be near, right? Not. Santa Rosita is a ficticious town and the real park no longer has the big W. Three of the four trees were lost and now it has a "BIG I".
My source of this information, of course, is Google.
100 degrees in a dry climate really isn't as bad as a 100 degree day in Minnesota in the summer. We don't even go outside because it is life threatening heat with a high humidity. It hit 100 one day when we were there. Not too bad, but we didn't spend much time outdoors.
Jon has a different opinion from mine as to how tolerable it was.
It pays to have two people in a car and use the HOV lane on the freeways. We drove past LA area during rush hour and the HOV was a godsend.
Unlike Texas, California has no plans to succeed from the nation.
San Clemente is my new favorite beach town. Gorgeous place with white sand beaches. The vibe by the beach is like a French Riviera beach town but without the rocky beaches. Nice place. The only thing I knew about San Clemente before we stayed there was that President Nixon had the western white house there during his term.
The best Mexican food is found in little Ma and Pa shops and you can drink the water, not that the Californians do drink tap water.
Ronald Reagan is still beloved and his Presidential Library is worth a stop.
We can't afford to retire to Santa Barbara with a house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Need $5 million to live that lifestyle.
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