Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

I'm not buying it. I grew up in Southern California. I'm not buying into (the notion) that has to be the image of L.A.

Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.