Weds April 2cd: Chris and VJ arrived in Los Angeles from Richmond on Weds April the 2cd and after a nice LAX lunch made their way via a travel bus up the scenic Pacific Coast Highway and on to Santa Barbara with the Pacific Ocean on the left and mountains on the right. We traveled at a time the traffic was low so the bus moved right along. Checked in at the hotel just a stones throw from the Pacific Ocean; Mountains behind us. We like it. Took a nice walk to the more happening part of town that included a swanky guitar/uke store named Guitar Bar, The Figueroa Mountain Brewery, a pizza joint (Barbarians?) with good local beers on tap, a meat market type bar with lots of pretty people and a .99 cents store. We didn't make it into the other 300 places as we were jet lagged, full on dinner and had a long walk back to the hotel. Karen could not make this trip so we miss her. We will do a toast to her for morning coffee. Tomorrow we go to Star Hill Studio for the Grow Music Project.