TP2000
Well-Known Member
I'm really enjoying this TR! It's been a couple years since I went to Universal Studios, but I agree that their fabulous tram tour is worth the price of admission. I think it will be time to go again in a year or two when that new Transformers ride opens. Universal is very different from Disneyland, but they do a great job up there on the hill.
Which brings me to my next point and gentle correction...
I'm afraid what you were pointing out in your pictures were not actually "mountains" but were simply hills. The Hollywood Hills or the San Gabriel foothills in the valley, to be exact. The mountains are beyond the hills. You should come visit SoCal in December when they get their first good coating of snow and they stand out like you wouldn't believe, making them look huge even from Orange County. From December through March you get views like this of the San Gabriel Mountains...
Now that smog is pretty much a thing of the past in SoCal, and most 21st century kids today don't even know what smog is, (there hasn't been a Smog Alert day in OC in almost 15 years now) the views of the hills and mountains around Southern California are particularly impressive. If you had visited SoCal 30 years ago, you wouldn't have seen the hills and mountains and valleys like you did this visit in the futuristic and scrubbed-clean year of 2010.
Loving your Trip Report! You are capturing the differences of Disneyland and SoCal quite effectively! :wave:
Which brings me to my next point and gentle correction...
I'm afraid what you were pointing out in your pictures were not actually "mountains" but were simply hills. The Hollywood Hills or the San Gabriel foothills in the valley, to be exact. The mountains are beyond the hills. You should come visit SoCal in December when they get their first good coating of snow and they stand out like you wouldn't believe, making them look huge even from Orange County. From December through March you get views like this of the San Gabriel Mountains...
Now that smog is pretty much a thing of the past in SoCal, and most 21st century kids today don't even know what smog is, (there hasn't been a Smog Alert day in OC in almost 15 years now) the views of the hills and mountains around Southern California are particularly impressive. If you had visited SoCal 30 years ago, you wouldn't have seen the hills and mountains and valleys like you did this visit in the futuristic and scrubbed-clean year of 2010.
Loving your Trip Report! You are capturing the differences of Disneyland and SoCal quite effectively! :wave:
