The California Trip, Part One: Ventura

Ventura looks like this



and this



It has an historic courthouse



and one of California's twenty-one Spanish missions--San Buenaventura, which we visited today.















The main drag is thick with antique-y stores.





These 3 ft. tall cat figures are almost cool enough to be in someone's garden.



Ventura--the place where Los Angeles' castoff knick-knacks come to die?



(And West Hollywood's.)





Outside, the jacarandas are blooming everywhere a month ahead of San Francisco's.



To be continued...in Part 2.