However, from the road you can't see how neat it is. I can now see several of the other Channel Islands. There's Santa Rosa and the smaller one to the north is San Miguel. On the right side of the train are rolling grasslands. In the low areas farmers are growing alfalfa.
Cattle roam the hills.
This is super. Up on the hill there's a farmhouse. A woman is outside waving a big American flag at us. She must do this for each Amtrak that passes by. On the beach to the left there's no one.