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Some locals come to dive with their own scuba and are said to be lucky enough to spot whales, and to the west are rocky beaches with the rhythmic lapping of white waves. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
All the way to the south, passing by BixbyBridge, the most famous bridge on Highway 1, stopping to play and take pictures, in order to take a group photo for everyone, Yunluo ran to the cliff on the opposite side of the road and began to tremble and climb high, find a foothold on the rock with a slope of nearly 60 degrees, and then take a group photo with the other seven friends in the telephoto.
Yunluo felt that he was quite hard! After that, drive past Big Sur, a large forest park, where there are many anglers in the stream, and many American tourists choose to spend the weekend here.
I was going to go to Hertz Castle, but the price of the ticket is slightly expensive according to the capitation, and the time for Yunluo and Yan Shenyu is not enough, so I didn't go in, the town at the gate of Hertz Castle is good, a large farm, by the sea, a house full of Mexican style receives a few tourists who come here for lunch.
The horses on the farm lay lazily and undisciplined. Along the way, you can also see the depression of the coastline, and there will be a thin layer of fog on the mountainside, like a piece of Hada dedicated to the earth by the ocean, which is very magical, and I don't know what the principle is.
In fact, the biggest surprise of Highway 1 today is that before arriving at Hertz Castle, I suddenly saw a large open space by the sea, ww√w. jumped out of a large parking lot, a vast number of cars and tourists, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu also turned into it to see what happened, it was a seal beach, no more than 30 meters wide, about 1 kilometer long on a piece of sand.
Hundreds of seals lounging and lounging, visitors can only visit the pier, but the distance is close enough. The seal's expression is absolutely cute.
Seeing animals in the animal world on TV is far less emotional than seeing the real thing in the zoo, which may be the meaning of the zoo's existence; Seeing animals in the zoo is far less than encountering and getting up close and personal with animals in real life, which may also be the meaning of travel.
Arrive in Santa Barbara, the town where Danes gather in the evening. It's already nightfall here, go to the seaside pier to see the night, and start to hurry again, there are more than 100 miles from Los Angeles, really because of the time, in fact, I can only say that I passed by California Highway 1.
There are many places worth stopping and looking at slowly, but it's not a pity that the best scenery is on the road, just like the roadside gas station actually met a homeless man walking with a cat on a rope. It's like passing a section of railroad by the sea at sunset, the railroad tracks, sleepers, reeds and the sea at sunset, quiet and beautiful.
Staying overnight in Rosemead, a small city near Los Angeles, where a Chinese-owned inn is quite cheap. Sabrina shared the room fee, and Brother Shang Chao still insisted on sleeping on the ground with a sleeping bag. Kudos to a travel companion who sacrificed himself for others.
I didn't feel the city of Los Angeles, and I didn't think about where to go, the only thing I was sure of was that I agreed to go skydiving with Brother Shang Chao. Sabrina, on the other hand, wanted to go to the outlets, and the outlets in Palm Springs and Perris, where the skydive was located, were both east of Los Angeles, so Yunluo and Yan Shenyu planned to go to the outlets for an hour first.
After buying things, they went skydiving together, and it turned out that Yunluo and Yan Shenyu were too naïve.
Originally, it took nearly two hours to drive to the outlets. I planned to go shopping for an hour but actually went shopping for two and a half hours, and once a woman entered the mall, it was really heartbreaking! Just kidding, in fact, Sabrina has already been shopping very fast, and Yunluo Monk Chao has also bought some things, which is indeed cheap here.
Yunluo also had to buy some autumn and winter clothes. Just after Guess bought a winter jacket and jeans, the Route 66 trip came in handy. Flying from Los Angeles to Chicago is like flying from summer to winter.
When I left the outlet and went to Perris's Skydive base, it was already around 4 o'clock, and the skydiving reservation for the day had ended, so I could only jump tomorrow, Yunluo Monk Chao did not hesitate to make an appointment for 12:00 noon tomorrow, Sabrina hesitated for a while and finally decided to visit Universal Studios tomorrow as planned.
Despite the fact that the female manager of the skydiving club repeatedly convinced her that skydiving is definitely more memorable than Universal Studios. Next, Yunluo Monk Chao signed various exemptions, life and death certificates, etc., and also needed a video to record a video reading the document: the document was to the effect that Yunluo knew very well that this was a dangerous sport.
In the event of an accident, it has nothing to do with the skydiving club. In fact, some other activities, such as paragliding, bungee jumping, diving, etc., will sign a similar exemption certificate, but the video evidence is still the first contact, which makes me a little nervous.
It was already more than 6 o'clock when I drove back to Los Angeles, and a friend that Shang Chao originally knew, Taiwanese Staphne, who grew up in the United States, invited Yunluo and Yan Shenyu to eat Sichuan food, she was quite spicy, but she never knew what Mao Xuewang was, and this time she ordered one that opened her eyes and said that it was really delicious.
Yunluo finally had a Mao Xuewang in the United States, and tears were in his eyes. After that, they went to the Hollywood Walk of Fame together, including the Dolby Theater, the Oscar Theater, originally called the Kodak Theater, and Yunluo was more interested in finding some actors he knew and liked on the Walk of Fame.
Including Robin Williams, Natalie Portman, Matt Dimon, etc., but they have never found Audrey Hepburn's star, and the strategy in advance is not enough. There are two Russian aunts who threw themselves on the ground and took a photo with Tom Cruise's stars, and Tom's charm is really impressed even by the women of the fighting nation.
From Los Angeles to Chicago is a red-eye flight, but as soon as I get out of the Chicago airport, I quickly woke up, Chicago is the coldest day of the American trip, the coat I just bought at the Palm Springs outlet two days ago quickly came in handy, there was no free wifi at the airport, Yunluo could not contact the little partner, but it was good to find passers-by to ask how to make a pay phone.
The gentleman dialed his partner's phone number on Skype and made an appointment to meet at the airport gate. The cold wind trembled for half an hour, and finally saw the companions who were driving on Highway 66 this time arrived, Xiao Jiang and Brother Yu, who were the same age as Yunluo, got in the car first, and then said, Yunluo was really frozen to death outside.
They had already been to the starting point of Route 66 at kilometer 0 before. Since they all came to the airport and didn't want to go back to the city during the morning rush hour, Yunluo didn't care whether they wanted to start from kilometer 0 or not, so they drove straight to Wilmington, the first stop of the day, and after leaving Chicago, they entered the central countryside.
Although it was cloudy, the soft light allowed the crops to come to the fields. The country roads and the various cute houses located in them appear fresh and bright, and the principle of Yunluo and Yan Shenyu is to follow the navigation, try to take the section of the historic Route 66, and only take the interstate highway and highway built behind when there is no road.
For this reason, there was no less detour, and this time I also detoured into the country road as soon as I came, but I gained a lot of unexpected scenery.
Wilmington's more iconic Route 66 element is the Jiminy Giant, which was historically used for advertising and is now in decline, and only one can be seen here. It's not as tall as you think, and Bradwood's more famous is the polkadotdriveinn, which may have arrived earlier.
The drive-thru restaurant, which is not yet open, can be seen through the glass with a row of Highway 66 signs, eight in all, with the names of the eight states the highway crosses, and four life-size statues of Elvis Presley and Monroe on the door. Not far from the restaurant across the road is a "zoo".
It's just that the animals inside are all colorful dolls, and the material should be made of sponge. Quite loving.
The weather gradually cleared up along the way, and I accidentally walked into a bar in Lexington, which was empty in the morning, of course, but this was the first time I had seen this Mexican-style road bar in the United States, exactly like in the movie and imagined, with a pool table in the corner. The bar is located in the middle of the bar.
There are neatly arranged cups hanging upside down, some skull-shaped ornaments next to them, and the eyeballs will be lit up, and it must be a state of demons dancing at night. After talking to the boss for a few words, I knew that this Lexington was not Lexington. The "Guns in Lexington" in the history books is the one in Massachusetts.
There are quite a few cities with the same name, and the next stop, Springfield, also has one in Missouri. Springfield, Illinois, the state's capital, is famous for having lived here for a long time when the great President Lincoln was a lawyer in his youth, so it is home to Lincoln's former home, as well as a cemetery.
Lincoln cemetery is on the outskirts of the city, there is still a little distance, because it is not on the way, so Yunluo and Yan Shenyu did not go, just walked around the city center, the more concentrated famous buildings, the Capitol Building, Union Station and the Lincoln Museum are all around the square, the museum needs tickets, it seems to be 10 dollars, forgot.
Yunluo once thought that all museums in the United States were free == There is also a seated statue of Lincoln in the square, and the Lincoln House itself is unremarkable four blocks away, and the surrounding streets are quiet and paved with fallen leaves.
In the evening, arrive in St. Louis, Missouri, the city's main city is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, ten kilometers away you can see the city's landmark West Gate, but Yunluo and Yan Shenyu stayed overnight at a motel on the eastern outskirts of the city, planning to see the famous arch again tomorrow.
When passing the Mississippi River, I went to see the chainrocksbridge, the most famous iron bridge on Route 66. The bridge is in St. Louis.
Park your car on the side of the road and walk on the bridge, the steel bridge has long been rusted, and there are dilapidated gas station kiosks, broken glass gas lamps and old tractors, classic cars parked on the bridge, as if recreating the busy traffic and horses of this bridge in those days. There were no tourists on the bridge, only a woman running.
A black couple walking and a Marine on vacation, when Yunluo walked back after shopping, he saw a car parked in front of Yunluo and Yan Shenyu's car, Brother Yu and Brother Jiang didn't understand English, so they waved to Yunluo for help from afar, Yunluo thought it was illegal parking and was caught by the police, so he sprayed all the way.
After figuring out the situation, it turned out that a black girl's car broke down next to Yunluo and Yan Shenyu for help, Yunluo and Jiang decided to push it, because the gas station was 600 meters ahead, and Yunluo and Mushroom MM's car almost broke down on the way back to Salt Lake City in Las Vegas a week ago.
Yunluo joked at the time that he would get out of the car and push it without gas, but he didn't expect it to be "complete" today.
The last section turned out to be uphill, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu pushed very hard, saw a pickup truck just came out of the gas station, immediately waved for help, two American buddies were very happy park, ran over to help push together, the last 10 meters of the slope is too steep, a buddy thought of a way.
I used a pickup truck to top the car through the soft clothes. When it was done, several people who didn't know each other sweated together and celebrated with fists.
There is a free parking lot next to the church, and you can walk through a small park to the foot of the gatearch, and the large silver-white arch is the tallest monumental structure in the world, with a semi-elliptical shape and a long axis of it, and it is hard to imagine how such a peculiar structure was built at that time.
His companions bought $10 tickets to take the elevator to the top observation deck, while Yunluo wandered around the museum in the lobby on the first floor, known as the West's Gate, which tells stories about the Westward Expansion, such as how Thomas Jefferson contributed to this expansion that had profound implications for the United States.
There are also some very interesting dolls, when you walk in front of them, they will move, and then "speak" to explain how the social class represented by "them" perceived the torrent of the times, there are blacksmiths, traders, Indians, pioneers, women and children, etc., which is very interesting.
Next up is the highlight of the day, CUBA! PS: Before arriving at CUBA, you will pass by a Harley motorcycle shop, which has a lot of new and used cars, as well as some historical Harley-Davidson attraction models from the owner's collection, which can be used as a private Harley museum.
In addition, you will pass through a very Swiss style paradise town, the calm and quiet lake reflects the delicate small houses on the grassy slope, which is very beautiful.
The Cuban town is famous for its 12 wall paintings, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu bought some things at McDonald's, and asked the waiter where the mural (wall paintings) were, and the waiter said that you can see it naturally along the main street towards the center of the town, which is too conspicuous to be missed.
The location of the parking was under a wall painting of a female pilot, and there happened to be two middle-aged local women stepping on a ladder to repaint the wall painting, and they were very enthusiastic to take a booklet to Yunluo and Yan Shenyu, and the map on it marked the location of 12 wall paintings, (one of which was incorrectly marked).
It also tells the story behind the 12 paintings, among which the wall painting that is marked incorrectly, which tells the story of a popular movie actress who walked out of the cinema accompanied by her fiancé at that time, and was caught by the paparazzi.
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