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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    1530 days 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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      30 days 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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        730 days ago

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

        • hopesdeadOP
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          630 days 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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      630 days 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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      329 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.

  • FriendOfDeSoto
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    1230 days ago

    The sound you’re hearing is me screaming in intense jealousy. Both of your trip and the outfit! LLAP

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      29 days ago

      🤭 Thanks. Unfortunately, unless I planned a better day to Agua Dulce (the city which Vasquez Rocks is located), I wouldn’t dare make the drive again. On a Saturday, there was so much traffic for the 64 mile drive.

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      730 days ago

      Many other episodes and not just TOS, filmed there.

  • Zier
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    330 days ago

    This was in the first Roswell series as well. Cool pic.

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    29 days ago

    That’s nuts. I was just up in LA a couple of days ago to see They Might Be Giants. Stopped by the TOS cast signatures in the concrete in the walk of fame.

    I’ll have to see if I can get that in next time, although it’s a bigger detour than simply jealously checking out the Micro Center in Tustin, which we have had nothing like back where I live since Fry’s Electronics shuttered (and frankly, Fry’s staff never seemed so nice).