WILL ROGERS STATE PARK

 First thing this morning we left Santa Clarita and headed to Will Rogers State Park for our morning walk in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Of course, as our luck would have it, the house tour at the park was not open on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.  But, there are great trails to walk, which was obvious, by all the locals that were taking their morning walks here, too.

We walked up a trail called 'Inspiration Point' which wound around up to a lookout point where we could see the surrounding area and out to the ocean.  There were lots of wild flowers, shrubs and birds.  The weather was perfect, but cloudy with marine air.  I like it.

I was fascinated by these beautifully symmetrical flowers? weeds? seeds?

When we got back to the pickup, we notice something hanging down underneath.  It was some kind of shroud.  Darrell was able to get underneath and unscrew the last screw holding in place, it was hand tight.  We called the local Chevrolet dealer and headed to Van Nuys.  We had 10:30 tickets for The Getty, but, we were not going to be able to make it there unfortunately. 

 The Van Nuys dealer wouldn't honor the work done at our Chev dealer and wanted $80 or something to put the other screws back in place.  They said there were no other problems and we could leave it off until we get home.  Which we did and went on our way.  Next stop Pasadena.