Drove South To Santa Barbara and then to Los Angeles

We loaded our truck up thinking we would spend the night in Santa Barbara but realized from what we had heard the storm might continue all day tomorrow too so we unloaded our stuff in Santa Barbara that we were bringing and drove to my cousins house in Orange County where we were meeting my daughter and her boyfriend who recently flew in from Europe. Because we arrived in Santa Barbara around 2 pm it meant that we would hit rush hour traffic but for some reason I was so happy to be seeing my cousin and his wife and my daughter and her boyfriend, for once the traffic didn't bother me like it used to. So, we arrived after leaving home in the Greater SF BAy area around 9 or 10 in the morning and got to Santa Barbara around 1 or 2 pm and left by 2:30 for Orange County. We got all the way to Las Virgenes Canyon RD which heads towards Malibu from Highway 101 which we were traveling south on. I didn't want to go by way of the Grapevine and 5 in case they got snow there and 5 closed over the mountains there on the way to Santa Clarita and the San Fernando Valley. So, the first traffic was at Las Virgenes Canyon Rd. but it definitely wasn't the last. We kept hitting Friday Afternoon traffic (which can be the worst traffic you ever are going to see in Los Angeles on a 7 day basis (unless it's the big holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years or 4th of July or something like or Labor Day or Memorial day).

So, the traffic kept moving between 10 mph to 30 mph until we got to Hiway 57 which is a freeway heading south and east until we got to 91 which is the Riverside Freeway. As soon as we hit 57 it speeded up a lot to normal freeway travel which is between 60 and 80 miles per hour all over the freeway. We arrived about 1/2 hour before my daughter and her boyfriend arrived so the timing was pretty Good.