California

 “California is an ex-girlfriend I used to love to hang out with who joined a cartel and does meth.”

- Joe Rogan quote

Back around 1982, I spent around seven days going from the most southern point....along the coast, up I-5 to Highway 1, to exit the state into Oregon.

Things were safe in those days.  You could stop and take in some great majestic landscape.  

I sat one evening in a bar and got a full hour-long lecture on the California of the 1950s by two retired guys.  

It was one of those experiences you needed in life.  

Today?  I'd just skip it.....nothing to be gained.