Day 8 - San Luis Obispo to Hollywood

We woke up to a very foggy morning but apparently this is the norm and it soon cleared. 

We stopped off at Shell Beach for a virtual which was an interesting spot with cool sea stacks and noticeably the nesting pelicans were uncannily quiet.

Our USB adaptor had blown a fuse after plugging in the inverter so we had to track down somewhere that sold fuses, after trying a couple of places we managed to find the right ones in Walmart.

Next stop was Solvang - Solvang was an interesting little place, it was founded in 1911 by a group of Danes who travelled west to establish a Danish colony far from the mid-western winters.  We didn't have much time there but we did buy a Christmas decoration from the Jule Hus (Christmas Store) and had a lovely chat with the lady behind the counter who told us all about the history of the place and was really interested in our travels.

Then we moved on to Santa Barbara where we did a couple of virtuals, the best one was at the court house, at first we thought it would take too long but we decided to make a start anyway and see how far we got as it had quite a few stages.  It was such an interesting building we decided to complete it.

Road to Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Court House

View from the Court House

The Big Fig

Then it was onward to our motel in West Hollywood. 

Once we'd checked in we decided to head up to the Griffiths Observatory to watch the sunset.  When we got to within a mile of the observatory the traffic was stationary and we were puzzled as to why there were people trying to sell T-shirts to the cars in the queue, to our surprise we saw they were Adam Ant T-shirts which seemed a little bizarre and random so a quick google and we found that Adam Ant was actually having a come-back concert in the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park  - of all the days to choose. We were absolutely amazed how many people were attending this concert, I mean back in the day I was quite a big Adam & the Ants fan but not sure I'd go to a concert now.  Realising we had zero chance of getting to the observatory before sunset we did a U-turn and headed back into Hollywood and went to Mel's drive-in - a really cool diner with  juke box on every table and loads of choice on the menu.