About a million years ago, back during\nmy first year in community college, I worked at CalTech as a\ncustodian. It was actually a pretty great place to work although the\nwages for temporary employees like me were lousy and work started at\n5:00 A.M. The trade-off was that the people I worked with were\nterrific and quite bright albeit a tad eccentric. I met another\nsub-par wage earner like me named Guy Richardson there back in 1972\nor 1973. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tOver the next couple years, there were\nmany changes in our lives and we pretty much lost contact. A death of\none of our former cronies compelled Guy to get ahold of me a few\nmonths back even though we had not seen each other for about 40 years\nor so. During our rambling subsequent conversations, Guy told us\nabout a museum in Sylmar, CA, called the Nethercutt Collection. The\nNethercutt is actually two separate collections installed in two\nseparate buildings located across the street from each other in\nSylmar. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tAfter much recent tomfoolery with my\nsmarter-than-me phone, we agreed to meet at the Nethercutt today. One\nof the two facilities was closed for renovations today but,\nfortunately, the massive automobile collection was open. We had been\nambling around in the fabulous collection of vintage automobiles (all\nof which are not only meticulously maintained but also fully\nfunctional) when Guy strolled in, fresh from a bit of business he had\naccomplished this morning. Disappointingly for me, he looks quite\nhealthy and is an affable guy but our reunion was very nice. We spent\nthe next couple hours checking out the fabulous automobiles and\nhobnobbing about nearly everything before departing to go eat. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tYesterday I had checked Sylmar for\ngood restaurants and had suggested we go to Buffalo Bill’s\nMercantile, a barbecue joint. Once we got there, however, it was a\ngrubby-looking little hovel and nobody seemed to be home although it\nwas tough to tell because there is no parking nearby. We then\nconsulted the internet and headed to nearby Taqueria Mi Ranchita\nwhich now seems to be a child dentistry place. Foiled again, we drove\ndown the street to a little place called Los Tres Hermanos Express, a\ncombination tiny dining place with a drive-up window. The food was\npretty good and the cute waitress was very nice. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After some more hobnobbing, Guy went back toward his place in the San Fernando Valley and we headed back to Acton. The usual L.A. traffic reared its ugly head and we had a slow passage going home but were able to turn off crowded CA-14 onto Soledad Canyon Road which had blissfully sparse automobile activity. It is about a 10 mile drive from CA-14 to the campground but recent rains have greened everything up and it is a gorgeous drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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