On Memorial Day I did not have a special post, but I drove around the Rincón and up to Lake Cachuma while listening to Winter Soldier testimony on KPFK. Here it all is in full text, for Flag Day.
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The loveliest way to enter Santa Barbara from the south is U.S. Highway 101, which goes around the Rincón and amazes you, no matter how famous the beaches you have flown in to LAX from. The most beautiful way to leave is on California Highway 154, up the mountain to San Marcos Pass and the Santa Ynez Valley. This road goes past Lake Cachuma and rejoins U.S. 101 as the valley ends.
When we lived in Santa Barbara it was suggested we should look down upon it because we were better people from further north. I liked it, though, and Los Angeles too, another forbidden taste. Nobody I know lives in Santa Barbara any more, and my Angeleno friends never understand why I would take the coast road if I intend to go all the way to San Francisco. I rarely have time to stop for long but I like at least to pass through and wave at my town.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
It’s a a beautiful town, a beautiful stretch of coast that makes you slow down- we drive up there later week, then hop across the channel to the small island of the same name, Santa Barbara.