Bizzaro California

We stopped by Bubblegum Alley on the way out of SLO. What more can we say? It's an alley with bubblegum stuck to the walls on either side. Some people just stuck a piece of gum on the wall; others created lines or loops with their gum; still others spelled out their names with the stuff.

We finished up our SLO visit with a trip to the Mission. It looked much like the other missions, except we actually went inside this one, which contained creepy statues of Jesus and Mary in even creepier rooms with even creepier devotion candles and incense. People who believe in drinking the blood of a man-god born to a virgin two thousand years ago scares Jason like an X-Files episode, so we high-tailed it out of there.

We made our way down the Pacific Coast Highway, but made a short detour north on Highway 101 to Solvang, an authentic Danish village complete with windmills and pastry shops. Not content to shock visitors with the sight of windmills on the horizon, we were completely thrown off by the sight of a field full of ostriches. Yes, that's right, ostriches. In an authentic Danish town. Off the coast of California.

Solvang also sports one of the fanciest trough urinals Jason has ever seen. Granted, when talking about the fanciness of a trough urinal, one is necessarily speaking of relative fanciness; it appeared to have been less than 20 years old, and is probably cleaned on a regular basis. It also had a urinal cake. Like we said, fancy!