California Adventure 2018

California Adventure 2018 - Part 5

Day 6

One place I was super stoked to go to was the M*A*S*H filming site in Malibu Creek State Park. Neither Samantha or I are exactly in shape and hiking isn't something we do often. But I convinced her to go, begrudgingly so.

It was about 10 miles round trip. Fortunately there was only a few places of steep inclines and it was paved for a good while, but about a 1/3 of the walk was very uneven ground with roots and rocks impeding our progress a bit.

We went out early to get a jump on it, not knowing exactly how long it may take us. It was very pretty scenery and we only saw a handful of people the entire time we were there.

We saw several lizards that skittered away and scared us every. Single. Time.

Our first view of the filming site!

This vehicle isn't originally from the show but most of the others were.

It was so neat to be able to see where everything used to be and to actually sit and picnic where the mess hall was!

Even though Samantha isn't a fan of the show, she was a good sport.

After we got back to the car, we were starving so we made a bee-line for the nearest local restaurant and ate some delicious pizza. After that, we had a bit of time to rest before going to the Observatory that evening. We made a quick detour though to get a doughnut though, and visit the Time Travel Mart in Echo Park.

As we entered the parking area for the Griffith Observatory, we noted that the upper parking lot was full, on a whim, we went up in the hopes of finding one. We were very fortunate to find one and realized it was quite a trek from the bottom to the observatory. We may have not gone if we hadn't found that spot because of our pretty strenuous hike earlier in the day.

Walking up I kept squealing with joy and pointing out various spots where James Dean had filmed Rebel without a Cause and scenes from La La Land.

The Tesla Coil was at the top of my list for things I wanted to see in action, it didn't disappoint.

A truly lovely day seeing places in person from films and shows I enjoy so much.

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