Visited Vasquez Rocks
Sharing my photo of me at Vasquez Rocks that I mentioned in a different post.
Looks much smaller in person. Didn’t get a chance to get upclose. I was cutting it close on time to make it to Universal Studios Hollywood for Fan Fest Nights (it was a 2 hour drive in stop and go traffic for me).
But um, yay! I got to see the Famous Rock (the formation featured throughout Trek). There is another formation called Witch’s Hat (for looking like a witch’s hat).
As someone who's not familiar with the LA area, it blows my mind that those things are basically in the middle of an urban area.
Just keep in mind our "SoCal" urban area is pretty fucking enormous, it sort of engulps the areas of natural beauty, connecting multiple cities, and we have too many cars. I love it, but visitors often have unrealistic expectations of how many places they can get to in a day.
Yep. Many people for example mistakenly think Los Angeles is near Disneyland.
Not this. This is pretty far removed from urban. 40 miles doesn’t seem like much unless you drove 2 hours to get there.
40 miles from Universal Studios that is.
Perhaps "urban" is the wrong word, but it ain't exactly Cestus III, y'know?
I mean, Raffi lived here. Memory Alpha says the appearances in PIC are Vasquez Rocks, not a differently named location.