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).

  • Value SubtractedM
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    151 month 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.

    • hopesdeadOP
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      1 month 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.

      • Value SubtractedM
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        71 month ago

        Perhaps “urban” is the wrong word, but it ain’t exactly Cestus III, y’know?

        • hopesdeadOP
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          61 month 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
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      61 month 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.

      • hopesdeadOP
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        830 days ago

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

    • James R Kirk
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      330 days 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.