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From: Gary LaPook <glapook@pacbell.net>

Date: January 1, 2010 11:40:34 PM CST

To: chris northcutt <cnorthcutt@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: things to do in LA

Half hour  north of Santa Barbara In Santo Ynez valley. About a dozen wineries, my favorite is Kalyra. The movie "Sideways" was filmed at many of these wineries. At the airport they have glider rides.

http://www.kalyrawinery.com/

http://www.fessparker.com/

http://www.buttonwoodwinery.com/

On the way to the Santa Ynez valley stop at the cold springs tavern for lunch.

http://www.coldspringtavern.com/



http://www.planetware.com/santa-ynez/windhaven-glider-rides-us-ca-sywgr.htm
http://www.santaynezairport.com/

Solvang, a danish village.

http://www.solvangusa.com/


This restaurant is about a mile from LAX a the east side of the airport and is basically an airplane museum sorrounded by about 50 historic airplanes and the walls in the restaurant are covered with photos of planes and aviators. The food is good and the prices are reasonable..


http://www.yelp.com/biz/proud-bird-restaurant-los-angeles

http://www.theproudbird.com/

The peterson car museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of ART (LACMA) are all within a mile of the tar pits.

http://www.petersen.org/

http://www.lacma.org/

The Getty Villa is spectacular.

www.getty.edu/visit/events/villa.html

Those are my ideas.

gl







chris northcutt wrote:

saw your post in the Navlist.  Liked your list of things to do in the

area.  Thanks.  We're going to be in LA and Santa Barbara in Jan (on

either side of a cruise), and we're definitely not the Universal

Studios/Disneyland type of tourist.  We're sort of geeky in our

preferences, and planned to do the Getty Museum, Hearst Castle,

bicycling along the ocean from Santa Monica pier weather permitting,

maybe a ferry ride to Avalon, drive by famous corners in west LA,

maybe the Huntington Library out in the Valley.  I wanted to do a JPL

tour and a Vandenberg AFB tour but they don't have them on the right

days. Are the La Brea tar pits worth it?  Anything else in the

history/science/technology/martitime realm you can think of?

Your flight with your bubble sextants sounds like lots of fun.  I'm

thinking of taking my sextant on the cruise just for fun and practice,

but worried I might come across as a bit of a poser to the other

passengers/crew.

Chris Northcutt

San Francisco, CA