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Old 01-05-2015, 06:37 PM
 
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I thought Cali was in Columbia!
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Old 01-05-2015, 07:30 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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I thought Cali was in Columbia!
Nope, actually, Cali is in Colombia.
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Old 01-06-2015, 01:37 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Nope, actually, Cali is in Colombia.
Yes, exactly.

There is no such state by the name of "Cali" in the US.
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Old 01-06-2015, 07:03 AM
 
Location: ATL & LA
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I do see the resemblance sometimes. The palm trees on the hills. I totally get it.
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Old 01-06-2015, 11:17 AM
 
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It don't.
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Old 01-06-2015, 11:42 AM
 
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Not even a resemblance? The only times I got that from visitors was when they saw Santa Monica down the PCH headed to Malibu. The other time was in Pasadena near the Rose Bowl where you could see homes on the hills with the palm trees.

Hawaii was their only other reference. I'm sure they meant that it casually resembles not an exact duplicate of the islands.
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Old 01-06-2015, 12:10 PM
 
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The arid (relatively speaking) South/eastern coast of Maui DID remind me in places of SoCal. The vegetation on the roadsides, including cactus and yucca, the way the dry hills cascade into the blue sea- very much like like the stretch on PCH from Malibu to Point Conception. And Lahaina looks to me like it would be right at home stuck between Encinitas and Leucadia- minus the Banyon trees, of course.

But once you get into the mountains, or on the Road to Hana... the illusion ends.

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Old 01-06-2015, 12:15 PM
 
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Hawaii gets the rain a lot more, and it needs it since that's the only freshwater they have as an archipelago far from a mainland. I always wonder how Catalina survives since they don't have a pipeline from Long Beach to supply water. I guess that's why Catalina isn't as populated as it could be.

Some old TV shows filmed when California wasn't in drought make SoCal look like a totally different scene compared to now after several years of drought.
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Old 01-06-2015, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Riverside
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Hawaii gets the rain a lot more, and it needs it since that's the only freshwater they have as an archipelago far from a mainland. I always wonder how Catalina survives since they don't have a pipeline from Long Beach to supply water. I guess that's why Catalina isn't as populated as it could be.

Some old TV shows filmed when California wasn't in drought make SoCal look like a totally different scene compared to now after several years of drought.
I noticed the difference, just in my lifetime. The San Bernardino Mts., as seen from the IE, used to be forested, and appeared dark blue-green from the valley. Now, they are bald up to about 6000 ft, and brownish-gray.
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Old 01-06-2015, 06:56 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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When they filmed the original Planet of the Apes in Malibu Creek State Park circa the late 60's they planted a lot of green vegetation to make the area seem more lush, not that it had anything to do with Hawaii. But they were just trying to make it a more lush looking environment.

I think Gurbie is on point with the reference to the drier part of Maui resembling Malibu to Pt Concepcion.
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