40 miles on the 405.

I went to a LA Kings game at the Staples center once, in a drive from Santa Barbara , we missed the entire first half of the game, but the Sharks beat the kings, so I was still pretty happy!

the side streets in Seattle are just as clogged as the freeway. The side streets in this video show very little traffic.

Keep this in mind when they try to raise your sales tax to add lanes to the freeway. It doesn't work.

If we had not been putting emission controls and standards on our cars beginning in the 60s, areas like Los Angeles would be uninhabitable.

We fled Los Angeles in the mid 'eighties.

Of course our kids grew up believing big cities were magical places.

One of our kids lives in Los Angeles.

Our nephews and nieces, similarly deprived of big city life by their strange metropolis-phobic parents, have landed in San Francisco, Seattle, and other West Coast big cities.