Oh God I remember how the road you took from Sunset up to the fucking Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake was technically a canyon but it was far enough inland it was pretty moist and verdant not like the coastal scrub, and there were like, a scattering of houses under tall trees, and with my 2022 goggles on it was fucking absurd that a few blocks off Sunset in the hot part of LA looked like that in the mid-2000s