Saturday, December 6, 2008

if you are going to san juan capistrano

Go down south on Interstate 5, get off at Ortega Highway, turn inland for about 7 and a half miles, you will see Caspers Wilderness Park. Drive in, park your car, enjoy a great hiking with blue skies and chaparral scenery.

On your way back on Ortega Highway, go past the I-5, the first traffic light you'll see is at a street named Del Obispo. Make a hurried left turn there, drive a couple hundred yards down the street, turn right to a Sizzler Restaurant and enjoy a hearty salad bar lunch for only $6.99, if you call the manager by his name and told him you had called him earlier and he agreed to give you and your pals that special price just because you called. 

Two weeks later you receive a letter from some p.o. box in North Hollywood. It's an official looking paper with 4 color pictures in the middle: A driver with a hiking cap who looks like me; the back sight of car with a license plate that looks like mine; a blue Highlander (that looks like mine) right behind the limit line of an intersection, with a red left-turn light on; and the same blue Highlander turning left in the middle of the intersection, with that same red light on. On top of the letter says: NOTICE OF VIOLATION--Automated Red Light Enforcement System.

And that will cost you $366, $423 if you elect to go to the traffic school to avoid the point.

So, like my wife chastised me with glee: what's the hurry, man. Slow it down, brothers, especially when you are in San Juan Capistrano, near the intersection of Ortega Highway and Del Obispo Street (GPS Latitude  33°30'6.73"N, Longitude 117°39'36.68"W)...


San Francisco (the song)

If you're going to San Francisco 
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair 
If you're going to San Francisco 
You're gonna meet some gentle people there 
                         ...

San Juan Capistrano (can somebody sing this for me?)

If you're going to San Juan Capistrano
Be prepared to part some money there
If you're going to San Juan Capistrano
You're gonna meet some hidden camera there 

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