This is the San Marcos Pass Road – Route 154 heading out of Santa Barbara into the Los Padres National Forest. We come up this way occasionally to eat breakfast at Cold Spring Tavern, just as we did this morning. To change things up a bit, we drove the much more narrow and steep Old San Marcos Road back into Santa Barbara with my Aunt and Uncle Burns.

Dropping a few photos of the inside of our aunt and uncle’s home so we never forget the old familiar site of staying at 288 Placer Drive in Goleta, California.

Uncle Woody in his dining room that’s barely changed in 35 years.

The TV changed, but everything else is just the way I remember it when I first visited in 1970 or so.

After another short visit to the Santa Barbara area, it was time to stop at the beach.

The beach and a nearby estuary.

And maybe some more beach so we can capture the Channel Islands behind Caroline, as this is a spectacularly clear day.

When I was a kid, Highway 101 was a single lane in each direction. We are going home.

Wow, neither of us has seen a VW Thing in a long time. We are passing through downtown Los Angeles, driving east.

We have options regarding the roads we can take through L.A. on our way to Arizona, and today it was Interstate 60, so Caroline could do some shopping in a small Asian plaza we love and grab a couple of green-tea-with-green-apple-and-boba teas at Ten Ren’s Tea Time, a big time favorite!