Day Five: Santa Barbara and Westlake Village
We didn’t get too early a start and then headed down to Santa Barbara. We passed some burnt out areas and some mud slides before stopping at an overlook at a high point of the coast mountains with views deep into some mountain ranges where the Hughes have walked in the past.
Santa Barbara really is a lovely town, though we didn’t see nearly enough of it. We did tour the mission, one of the oldest on the coast.
After grabbing a sandwich downtown we headed south, first through Montecito, where the slides had killed people. There was a lot of rain in the forecast (the Californians called it an “atmospheric river”!) and most of Montecito had been evacuated.
As you drive closer to LA, the subdivisions start to sprout, and we were soon in a big development where the Hughes residence sits; it’s quite a place, with the streets running up canyons between steep ridges.The house is lovely, with a lap pool and a fire pit area out back!
We went out for Mexican, but it turned out to be a chain in a mall…pretty disappointing!