Santa Barbara, Monday Feb 14 Raining hard this morning and all the steam mudde in flord. We leare at 11.30 A.M. to go to Palo Alto or Stanford University. Got to Ramona Hotel at 10.15 P.M. At San Luis Obispo the railway climbs from about sea-level to over 1000 feet, and soon one begins to see highly metamorphic rocks -- layers of serpentine and volcanic ones -- and they continue for a long distance to the north. Evi- dently these are the San Franciscan series of Jurassic times. The hills are not high here, not- ally less than 2000 feet. South of Obispo the railway goes along the sea-shore, but northwards one goes inland and follows for a long time a river that flows into Monterey Bay, or this valley to the south of San Miguel one sees fine alluvial terraces.