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The Annoyed Man wrote:Well, I got back from California this afternoon. Actually, I got back last night, but spent the night in Amarillo...... Anyway, we are SO glad to be back, and both my wife and I commented on and agreed about a few things:

1. We are no longer "ex-Californians", we are Texans. Maybe not by birth, but most certainly by choice.
2. California is irredeemable. It is SO much worse than the last time we were there.
3. The streets that were — in our memories — broad and free flowing, were actually narrow and choked with traffic.
4. The drivers, which I used to believe were the best in the nation, are rude and poorly skilled these days.
5. (On the positive side) El Portal in Pasadena is still the best Mexican restaurant in the United States.
6. Californian's, even my more or less conservative friends there, are flabbergasted by the concepts accompanying individual liberty and Classical Liberalism.
7. We saw brown air. California's environmental fascists can't keep up with its burgeoning, increasingly foreign, population. It is getting positively 3rd world there.

There's more, but those are the "highlights". We came away realizing that the California of our youth and all the great memories we had are just that - memories. With California, you truly can't go back.......but even if you could, there would be some democrat law against it. We enjoyed northern Arizona, and we love the drive through New Mexico, and would gladly explore either of those two states on future vacations. But going forward, the only thing that will get us back to California to visit is the maintenance of family relationships. Californians have ruined California for good.