Cost: $40 in losses plus gas
This blog was started to record my adventures and inspire others to savor the wide variety of experiences available in LA and its environs. I recently returned to Woodland Hills to care for my elderly mother after spending the last seventeen years in Mammoth Lakes. I'm blown away by everything there is to do in the Southland - and feel like I've just emerged from a deprivation tank.
While I'll usually be traipsing solo, there will also be excursions with friends and family. Today's episode was at my Mom's request. There's nothing she loves more than playing slot machines, so off we went to Chumash Casino.
Really, the drive from the San Fernando Valley beats the destination. Escaping the crowds in LA and heading up Highway 101 through green fields and alongside shimmering beaches brings back memories of an earlier time in Southern California. Hats off to Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties for their slow-growth policies. It's mandatory to listen to Santa Barbara's KTYD (99.9) on this stretch of road, which seems to have kept the same playlist since the early Eighties.
The casino is all Vegas glitz, flashing machines and cigarette smoke. Our pocket money was quickly devoured by hungry slots. We skipped the coffee shop this time, but you shouldn't: their hamburgers are divine.
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