two weddings with a break in between for work. Santa Barbara was awesome, stayed in a really cool vrbo hosted by a lady famous for the art she does with used coffee machine cup lids. I wish I took more pictures. On Sunday the traffic leaving Santa Barbara was awful because everyone was departed from fiesta weekend, too. So we just waited it out on the main beach. It felt like I was in Europe on the Mediterranean. Mostly because there’s tons on euro tourists wearing speedos or in some cases just underwear (batman underwear) to the waters edge. But also because it was an unusual 80 degrees and sunny, no wind, sailboats and speed boats all cruising close to shore up and down the beach. Really it was a rare sight.
The other wedding was up in Santa Clara and Morgan hill. Saw a lot of great people and even got to see my mom the following day for breakfast. On the way back driving down i5 it was about 100 degrees out and the air conditioner clunked out for longer periods than it worked, make for a bit of an uncomfortable drive. Another sad part was passing by the reservoirs in the area that were about 25% capacity, coupled with wildfires going on and smokey air, it’s a scary sight and feeling.