Who lives in southern Cali. Cynthia

gixxerific · Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:57 pm

Well who's down here I'm in laguna right now at the pacific marine mammal center.

cynthia_h · Tue Jul 09, 2013 2:03 pm

Pacific Marine Mammal Center is in Laguna Beach, Orange County. I usually think of "Southern California" as the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino, but this isn't a generally accepted definition.

Waterbug is in SoCal for sure; there are several others, too. I'll have to check.

ReptileAddiction also in SoCal.

BTW, I'm at least a 7- if not 8-hour drive from L.A., so it's not a "drop by" kind of thing.

Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9

gixxerific · Tue Jul 09, 2013 4:15 pm

Too bad CH. I was hoping you would be close enough for a drive by. Just left Laguna it was nasty stinky and very high surf. It mocked my daughter on her face, damn near pulling me in.

We are going back to Huntington now. I will have to see where El Carrito is on the map.

Heavy surf and rip currant warnings all week in Orange County.

cynthia_h · Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:33 pm

Instructions for finding El Cerrito on a paper map:

Locate San Francisco. Look east, across the San Francisco Bay, and find Oakland. Go north to Berkeley. Go north just a little bit more. Oops! You're in Richmond--you just overshot us. Drop back down a little bit to El Cerrito.

When we lived in Berkeley, that house was 6 miles south (yes, almost due south) of our current house. Weird, huh?

Cynthia

gixxerific · Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:42 am

How can you be 7 - 8 hours from LA? It looks like about an hour.

Seems like about 35 min or so from here if I am doing this right.

cynthia_h · Wed Jul 10, 2013 2:10 am

Ah. The classic trap. There is a southern town called Cerritos and yes, it's pretty close to where you are.

But I'm in El Cerrito, up near San Francisco, where (*sigh*) the airplane crash was on Saturday. Amazingly, only two people were killed--tragically, both of them 16 years old--with 305 survivors. That was local news for me.

Take another look at the map. I've driven to L.A., to Orange County (Irvine), and to San Diego. Although it was quite a while back, I remember each of those trips, and none of them were short! Gas and potty breaks had to be carefully planned.

Cynthia

gixxerific · Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:56 am

HaHa yeah that was El Cerrito road in the map. I see where you are now. I have mad respect for you and would love to meet you. But I don't love you that much.

Looks like just over 7 hours and about 416 miles.

gixxerific · Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:05 am

Yeah that was an ugly crash the outcome could have been much worse. We heard of it when we were about to land in Vegas for a layover. It had just happened.

cynthia_h · Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:50 am

gixxerific wrote:
Looks like just over 7 hours and about 416 miles.

Sounds about right.... San Diego was 11 or 12 hours (we went *around* L.A.); downtown L.A. via The Grapevine (Tejon Pass) was 7.5 hours or so with only one stop, either in "famous" Gustine or "famous" Bellflower, depending on whose car we were in.

Glad you got the distances worked out, but sorry we won't meet, at least not on this trip! (It's probably for the best: my house is half-painted and this year's "garden" is very higgledy-piggledy.)

C