Kanan Road to the Beach
Hot Sunday Afternoon. Let’s drive to the “Bu”, Malibu!
This probably looks familiar to my local peeps.
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A very hot Sunday Afternoon in Los Angeles. An invitation to a food and wine event at an estate and winery in Malibu. A beautiful day for a drive…
Except that there was a lot of traffic on the freeway heading for the beach. And if you waited in the long half-mile line to exit the freeway at Kanan Road, you probably added at least a half hour in wait time…
They’re doing construction/maintenance on the tunnels on Kanan, so they have one lane in each direction through one of the tunnels. Growing up in Los Angeles, these tunnels represented the border between the valley and the beach.
NOTE: Don’t try this at home!
NOW HERE’S WHERE THE DAY WENT WRONG:
We arrived at the event and the parking was at the ranch next door. The parking was far away, along the unpaved road, next to the horse corrals. They invited a lot of people and most brought a guest along, then they made them walk in the heat and dust to wait for a shuttle into the winery.
Here’s a pic of lots of luxury cars (three Mercedes front to back) parked along the dirt road. The shuttle stop is somewhere past all these cars and then up a hill. Oh yeah, it’s 105 degrees!!!
Every time a car drives by you, you get dusted, and you’re dripping wet before you get to the shuttle stop. Then you find out they only have two 8 passenger vans running the 200+ people up the hill, and there are a hundred people waiting ahead of you…
Oh yeah, no shade and it’s 105 degrees!!! ABORT MISSION! I bailed immediately once I realized it was going to be an hour waiting in the heat and dust. Unbelievable bad planning! And truly less than impressive.
Here’s the thing. I’m young compared to many of the guests that were invited and I knew it would be hot. I put on the sunscreen, dressed for the hot weather, and brought a bottle of water and a hat for the sun. Most of the guests did not! Asking elderly people to hike in the dust and stand in the sun without shade on a dangerously hot day is a recipe for disaster.
And I can’t even imagine how long it took them to get out of the event. After food and wine, having to be shuttled down the hill, walking in the heat and dust, trying to turn their luxury cars around, and then trying to turn out of the ranch’s driveway onto Kanan Road, with traffic returning from a day at the beach. And then of course you have the freeway traffic to contend with too. What a nightmare!
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