Santa Barbara, Monday Feb 14 Raining hard this morning and all the steam muddy as usual. Will leave at 11.30 A.M. to get 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 serpentines and volcanic ones - and they continue for a long distance to the north. Evi- dently these are the San Franciscan series of Jurassic time. The hills are not high here, only not very far from 2000 feet. South of Obispo the railway goes along the sea-shore, but northwards are more inland and follows from long time a river that flows into Monterey Bay, or this valley to the south of San Miguel one sees fine alluvial terraces.