California, the Beautiful

     So I have several of these picture groups that I'm going to do separately, mainly because they take in depth explanations. So there will be several entries for the state of California. California is a complicated subject, and I'll do my best to remain unbiased. The first part of California we drove through was a poorer part of town, the place where my father grew up. He says it's a lot different from when he was living there. The roads and highways where all lined with garbage and dead animals. Also, along the sides you will find numerous "No Parking signs", completely ignored and unenforced. Along with that things are ridiculously expensive. By things I mean everything. Gas, on the cheaper end, was $3.14 a gallon. In fact, there was little price fluctuation between areas of affluence and areas of less so, which is not the case in many places we've been on this trip. In most areas, all of which had lower gas prices, there would be some change, generally cheaper as you got into poorer areas. The air, especially in the poorer and more crowded areas, was disgusting. In the images below of the skyline, that is not overcast, that is not clouds, that is smog. The air felt thick and dingy, hard to breath. I have had a cough since I entered California, and it hasn't left yet. Another strange thing is that most places in California, while you were on the highway, the road was almost prison like, with fences, stone walls, barbed and razor wire even, all to prevent people from entering the highway to commit suicide. In some cases, say some disaster were to happen, people would be stranded on those highways and have to walk for hours to get off. It was actually very dangerous.

I really wanted to go to this gun show just to see what it would have been like.











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