Quiet excitement at UCLA

The second leg of the Southern California MySQL Campus Tour was at UCLA. There was less attendance than Cal Poly. Only 22 brave souls who endured a lengthy session with a long tail of Q&A. The excitement came on my way back to my hotel, 25 miles from the campus. Distances have a different meaning here. A few dozen miles is just a tiny portion of the town, and so I found myself once more driving the endless highways of Los Angeles.

When I was almost home, I saw all the cars in front of me stopping, for what I believed was a traffic jam. Instead, it was a truck that was burning fiercely. When I realized that almost everyone was escaping to a side road, I took a rapid picture and then I followed suit in a prudent retreat.