mattcalifornia

Thanks. Semi-interesting trivia about that photo. It's hard to see, but you can sort of make out a house at the left-hand side of the dark ridge that runs across the middle of the photo. The house is built on a small peak that has almost unobstructed 360-degree views of the ocean, Catalina Island, the Santa Monica Mountains and the whole city from Santa Monica to downtown LA. It's a really cool gated property at the end of a long dead-end street. Anyway, it belongs to Dennis Tito, who is best known for being the first private space tourist. He paid the Russians about $20 million to hitch a ride to the ISS. He made his fortune by converting his background as a JPL engineer into being one of the first "quants" (using computer modeling and mathematics to analyze the stock market). The Strava segment up his street is called "Amalfi to Astronaut's House" or something like that.