Nope, not making anything up. You're wrong. Although I prefer nature, I also like to check out cities when I drive. I go to the downtown, not the crappiest parts (unless that is the crappiest part, but it rarely is). However, I will sometimes checkout the crappiest parts if I've seen enough of the city already. I have been to Kensington (Philadelphia), Skid Row (LA), and DTES (Vancouver, BC) to check out how bad the neighborhoods actually were with my own two eyes. San Bernardino is a very smoggy place. I feel like I'm getting cancer just by driving into it. It does have the McDonald's Museum which was interesting, because I saw some Batman Animated Series action figures from my childhood and I never knew where they came from until then. Not into whores. A crackhead offered to blow me while walking downtown in San Bernardino, but I respectfully declined. She was black and also called me a "n*****" when she got frustrated I wouldn't give her any money. I told her, "I agree. I'm a complete n*****". I also told her that all she cared about was drugs and money, this town deserved a different kind of crazy person, and I was going to give it to them. It was a good convo. Yes, Caliexco (it's a small city in the desert on the border with Mexico, there's a little market down on the border). I was driving along I-8 from San Diego to Yuma, also stopped in East Jesus/Slab City and on the Salton Sea.
I made a lot of money during the Pandemic. Then things got slow and I was giving back (though I still got plenty of money), so I did take like 8 months off from trading and traveled. I'm trading again now. Had to change my style to the new reality of no longer being able to tape read with the L2/T&S, but I'm back in the game.