I made it back to Texas safe and sound, and after sleeping for about 16 hours, I am caught up and ready to go. The trip was really nice, beside the fact that it really messed up my sleep schedule, to the extent that I ended up missing my second class yesterday. Who needs DSP anyway? Well, my much promised pictures are here, at least a few of them. The ones in the car I took while driving, and the others were taken in their own shares of bad lighting or othere photograpic taboo, but nevertheless, here they are.

We start out way up in northwestern LA, north of Malibu and heading south. I was getting tired of the city on Sunday, so I decided to take a nice drive through the mountains. Traffic was minimal on the freeway, until I got to Malibu at least.

The view coming over the Malibu hills and into the north side of Malibu is just gorgeous. The ocean goes on forever, and the beaches are really beautiful and sparsley populated even on a Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, that was soon to change.

Coming into Malibu from the north is really beautiful. You get a great view of Broad Beach on one side and all of the multi-million dollar homes in the hills on the other. There are some massive houses up there, some of them might be hotels they are so big. Unfortunatey, as pretty as Malibu is, I can think of better places to put such a huge home. Sure, its close to LA, but if you have enough money to build a house that big in Malibu, you should have enough to build it somewhere else and fly there, just to get away from the crowds. Of course, many of the folks with houses in Malibu probably have a house somewhere else as well.

In the heart of Malibu lie two things – the campus of Pepperdine University, with its well kept lawns and ocean views, and way too much traffic. It seemed that half of LA was at the beach, and the other half was either trying to get there or going home. It took me about 45 minutes to get to Malibu from the north, and about an hour and a half to get home via the pacific coast highway.