[Shop-talk] OT - California destinations

[Randall]

If you're going past San Simeon (Hearst Castle), be sure to stop at the
Piedra Blancas beach just north of there and see the colony of elephant
seals.  I don't think you'll see any mature males this time of year, but the
females and pups are impressive enough.
http://goo.gl/3XOUE

The Petersen automotive museum in West LA (founded by the same Robert
Petersen that published Hot Rod magazine, Motor Trend, Motor Life and
CARtoons) is worth a visit, IMO.
http://www.petersen.org/

If you have time and are so inclined, walk up Wilshire Blvd a few blocks
from there and see the La Brea tar pits.
http://goo.gl/m20Rf
There is a museum next door that exhibits many of the fossils that have been
dug from the tar; but the pits are more interesting to me.  Although they
have been faked up a bit (the mammoths in the pit aren't real <g>), that is
still natural petroleum and gas bubbling up out of the ground.

-- Randall