My brother was flying back from Alaska yesterday. He was supposed to fly into San Francisco but ended up flying into San Jose due to some plane problems. I drove my mom's car down there from Turlock to pick him up. The traffic coming back on all the highways I was taking was really backed up so I wanted to take a different way back. I didn't really have a lot of time to look for a route but saw route 130 that cut through and decided to try that. I didn't realize it went up over a mountain and past Lick Observatory. It was all really neat to see but definitely didn't save any driving time. There were a lot of curvy roads and overheated brakes involved, haha.

Here's the main observatory building. There was an event going on so we couldn't go in.

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This was inside looking at one of the other telescopes, pretty impressive how big it was.

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Here's the view from the top of Mt Hamilton outside the main building at Lick Observatory.

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