Go down south on Interstate 5, get off at Ortega Highway, turn inland for about 7 and a half miles, you will see the Caspers Wilderness Park. Drive in, park your car, enjoy a great hiking with sunny California blue skies and rocky chaparral hills.
On your way back on Ortega Highway, go past the I-5, the first traffic light you'll meet is at a street named Del Obispo. Make a hurried left turn, drive a couple hundred yards down the road, turn right into a Sizzler Restaurant, 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 discount.
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 center: 1) A driver with a hiking cap that looks like me; 2) The back sight of car with a license plate that looks like mine; 3) A blue Highlander (that looks like mine) right behind the demarcation line of a traffic intersection, with a left-turn light shining red on the corner; 4) That blue Highlander turning left in the middle of the intersection, with that same left-turn light still shining red. The heading of the letter says: NOTICE OF VIOLATION--Automated Red Light Enforcement System.
And that will cost you $366; $423 if you choose to go to the traffic school to avoid the penalty 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 (see Google map: http://bit.ly/w5jYqo).
On your way back on Ortega Highway, go past the I-5, the first traffic light you'll meet is at a street named Del Obispo. Make a hurried left turn, drive a couple hundred yards down the road, turn right into a Sizzler Restaurant, 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 discount.
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 center: 1) A driver with a hiking cap that looks like me; 2) The back sight of car with a license plate that looks like mine; 3) A blue Highlander (that looks like mine) right behind the demarcation line of a traffic intersection, with a left-turn light shining red on the corner; 4) That blue Highlander turning left in the middle of the intersection, with that same left-turn light still shining red. The heading of the letter says: NOTICE OF VIOLATION--Automated Red Light Enforcement System.
And that will cost you $366; $423 if you choose to go to the traffic school to avoid the penalty 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 (see Google map: http://bit.ly/w5jYqo).
San Francisco (the song, http://www.youtube.com/
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 (Ivan, I am still waiting for you to 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
Time moves ever so stealthily... whiff... another
While retrieving this old writing of mine, I did some fact checking and found:
* The Sizzler at San Juan Capistrano is no longer--it closed business some time ago
* The San Francisco online video is still there, but preceded/shadowed with advertisement now
* And who would have thought, we just bought a new house in the city of San Juan Capistrano a couple weeks ago!
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