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Visited Vasquez Rocks (startrek.website)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by hopesdead@startrek.website to c/startrek@startrek.website

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Sharing my photo of me at Vasquez Rocks that I mentioned in a different post.

Looks much smaller in person. Didn’t get a chance to get upclose. I was cutting it close on time to make it to Universal Studios Hollywood for Fan Fest Nights (it was a 2 hour drive in stop and go traffic for me).

But um, yay! I got to see the Famous Rock (the formation featured throughout Trek). There is another formation called Witch’s Hat (for looking like a witch’s hat).

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[-] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's nuts. I was just up in LA a couple of days ago to see They Might Be Giants. Stopped by the TOS cast signatures in the concrete in the walk of fame.

I'll have to see if I can get that in next time, although it's a bigger detour than simply jealously checking out the Micro Center in Tustin, which we have had nothing like back where I live since Fry's Electronics shuttered (and frankly, Fry's staff never seemed so nice).

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[-] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 11 points 2 days ago

The sound you're hearing is me screaming in intense jealousy. Both of your trip and the outfit! LLAP

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

🤭 Thanks. Unfortunately, unless I planned a better day to Agua Dulce (the city which Vasquez Rocks is located), I wouldn’t dare make the drive again. On a Saturday, there was so much traffic for the 64 mile drive.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Timing is everything with LA traffic. Right now I could get from Westwood to Vasquez rocks in a breezy 45 minutes, but that's because it's 11:25 pm.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 6 points 2 days ago

I was coming from Riverside County.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Ah! Well there's your problem, Captain! Without warp speed, we'll never get across the city!

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 6 points 2 days ago

If only I had a transporter available.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 12 points 2 days ago

As someone who's not familiar with the LA area, it blows my mind that those things are basically in the middle of an urban area.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

I visited once and it is really funny how you drive through normal looking suburbs thinking "there is no way we are anywhere near Mintaka III" then suddenly there it is.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not this. This is pretty far removed from urban. 40 miles doesn’t seem like much unless you drove 2 hours to get there.

40 miles from Universal Studios that is.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

40 miles? I thought this was in the TMZ.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago

Perhaps "urban" is the wrong word, but it ain't exactly Cestus III, y'know?

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 6 points 2 days ago

I mean, Raffi lived here. Memory Alpha says the appearances in PIC are Vasquez Rocks, not a differently named location.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Just keep in mind our "SoCal" urban area is pretty fucking enormous, it sort of engulps the areas of natural beauty, connecting multiple cities, and we have too many cars. I love it, but visitors often have unrealistic expectations of how many places they can get to in a day.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago

Yep. Many people for example mistakenly think Los Angeles is near Disneyland.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

This was in the first Roswell series as well. Cool pic.

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Lol I just finished watching "Arena". It's a cool place, every fan should visit.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago

Many other episodes and not just TOS, filmed there.

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