Our first stop in California was Claremont, home of the five Claremont colleges (and, on a geekier note, home of the late David Foster Wallace, grandfather of this summer’s most essential online book club). We were visiting our friend from high school, Charlotte (pictured), who now attends Scripps, the all-girls school in Claremont. The plan was to hang around Claremont a little bit, then go into Los Angeles, CA to visit some other friends and see what the whole fuss was about.
Alas, transit in LA County is notoriously difficult even with a normal-sized automotive vehicle. There was no way we were driving the bus into the city to deal with what we’d heard was a nightmarish parking situation, and there was no good public transportation system to get us where we wanted to go. Gradually, we relinquished the idea of ever going to LA; we felt bad about not seeing our friends there (and about not ever trying to meet Gary Oldman, which was sort of a half-joking mission of ours), but from what we’d been told by locals, we weren’t missing a great deal from the city itself. We were all sort of stunned by how hard pressed everyone we talked to was to come up with anything to actually do in Los Angeles.
So we ended up staying in Claremont for three days, and it served as a pretty good substitute. The campuses (including Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pomona) were absolutely gorgeous, and the downtown area was nice as well. It might not have been the Walk of Fame, but none of us were particularly interested in the obligatory sight-seeing stuff anyway.
It still feels kind of odd to have missed out on what is the major city of the West Coast, but perhaps it’s not a bad thing. We were eager to check out LA more out of a sense of obligation than anything else, and my curiosity still isn’t sated; but for this particular road trip, I’m going to trust the judgment of Claremont residents that it wouldn’t have been worth the effort.
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