Road Trip! Part 2: San Juan Bautista and a bit of Gilroy, CA
Day 2 or our road trip to San Francisco. Saturday, 2.15.2020.
A cold morning in San Juan Bautista, CA.
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Time to leave San Juan Bautista...
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On the road again. Those mission bells on what's supposed to be a bishop's staff, are set up along US-101 from Los Angeles to the Bay Area. They're supposed to mark El Camino Real, the route of the mission Padres.
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Entering Gilroy, CA.
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Gilroy's Old City Hall---which is now a restaurant. This is where we ate breakfast.
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A rather simple style chilaquiles. Pretty tasty. A guy my partner knew who is from Zacatecas said that he's used to chilaquiles not being all drenched in red salsa.
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Gilroy, California bills itself as the "Garlic Capital of the World," after all.
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Leaving Gilroy, and onward, to our final destination... To be continued...
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__________________ "I guess the only time people think about injustice is when it happens to them."
~ Charles Bukowski
I’ve been to Gilroy multiple times but never actually went downtown own. SJB is a lovely little town though.
Vertigo, yes! I love that movie and have seen it many many times. Many years ago, my partner and I did a "Vertigo" tour of SF, where we stopped at some of the landmarks, like Fort Point, Madeleine Elster's apartment building, etc. Hehe sometimes I joke that we should do a "Zodiac Killer" tour of the Bay Area. Yes, SJB is indeed a lovely little town.
This was our first time stopping in Gilroy; we've only ever driven through it.
__________________ "I guess the only time people think about injustice is when it happens to them."
~ Charles Bukowski
Wow, San Juan Bautista looks like an amazing town! It looks like a mix between an old California mission town (like Old Town San Diego), which is to be expected; a Mexican town, which also is historically to be expected; and a Wild West town. That pink house in the first picture reminds me of the Balcony House in Nassau, Bahamas!
Where is that famous bell tower? Must have been a matte painting. Tsk tsk Alfred!
Yes, he used a matte painting.
Hitch was also really into rear projection, in many of his films. He was the kind of director who preferred shooting in a soundstage, because then he would have full control over the lighting, etc.
__________________ "I guess the only time people think about injustice is when it happens to them."
~ Charles Bukowski