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I've never been a beach person - nor much of a water person for that matter - there are only lakes and rivers in the land-locked Prairies scoured out of the ground by the glacial action of the last ice age and the meltwaters of the Rocky Mountains .

But, I think I could be...

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2013.04.21 Mulholland Drive
 
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the Mountain

the Drive
   

 

 
    After a lazy Sunday brunch at old Hollywood eatery The Smokehouse we drove around the city a little, then travelled the best-known portion of Mulholland Drive above Hollywood .


Hollywood Blvd
   

TCL Chinese Theatre
 
   

Beverly Hills
   
I've already driven the westernmost end of this road: portions of the Drive in Calabasas and the Mulholland Highway . The Drive (Highway at first) was originally envisioned as one long road along the top of the Santa Monica Mountains but in the 1970s environmental groups won a battle to keep the mountains between the Highway and the Drive unspoiled, so now it's park space.
Onto Mulholland Drive east of Interstate 405
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

Benedict Canyon
 

Charles & Lotte Melhorn Overlook
 
   

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

Coldwater Canyon Dr
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
 

 
   

Nancy Hoover
Pohl Overlook
 

 
 

 
 
   

Laurel Canyon Dr
   

 

 
   

 
   
Hollywood Bowl Overlook
   

 
   

 
   

 

 
 

lower area
upper area
 

 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Hollywood Bowl
foreground
 

 
 

 

A decent little drive, not very demanding, nice views. The most-special parts of Mulholland are hidden behind gates and fences: big fancy hillside houses with spectacular views.

 
 
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