The 100 mile drive to San Diego from Placentia seems to get longer every time I do it! Since the Virus came along the traffic has been light, but when I drove down yesterday it was moderate to heavy. Of course, it was a Friday and I arrived home about 4pm, so some of the traffic was people commuting home, or away, for the weekend. But I never know exactly how long it will take to drive down or back. It has taken one hour and forty-five minutes and it has taken over three hours. Depends on traffic, accidents, weather, the stage of the moon for all I know! Yesterday we had the low clouds that we call June Glooms, so I never did get a glimpse of the ocean.
Just below the town of San Clemente I-5 goes into San Diego County, passing San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant and into Camp Pendleton Marine Air Station which stretches to Oceanside.
Looking out to the west one usually gets glimpses of the ocean and occasionally an Amtrak train will go by (the tracks switch from one side of the highway to the other, so it could be on either side of the roadway).
There is quite a stretch of land between the highway and the ocean, although in some places it seems that there is just a drop off to the surf. But that isn't ever the way it is. The ocean is out there, way beyond the higway guardrail.
But on a clear day, like this one on March 12, 2020, the sky is bright blue and the blue Pacific stretches to the horizon. In this image there is a rare bank of clouds over the water.
The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant is no longer in operation, but the wires still stretch over the highway and the domes still reflect the light. I haven't read anything for a long time about dismantling it.
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