Hidden Hills, Yorba Linda, CA

[alanmcorcoran]

I live in the eastern tip of Anaheim, CA, an area known locally as Anaheim Hills. Like its namesake, Beverly Hills, it's not actually a town or a city. 92808 is just a stuck-up section of Anaheim, like our more famous cousin, 90210. Don't get the wrong idea... the part I live in was built after they sold off large swaths to greedy developers - I basically live in a housing tract. The houses are decent, even if they are essentially stacked on top of one another, but you're not going to find Paris Hilton or Mark Wahlberg living in one. There's a nicer older part up behind me, and you might find a Mighty Duck or Angel reliever up there, but for a more pure rich bastard experience, you need to cross the tracks to Hidden Hills, Yorba Linda.

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For the last eleven and a half years I have been looking out across the Santa Ana Canyon, from my neighborhood, over to the Hidden Hills and trying to figure out what exactly was perched at the end of Hidden Hills road. A golf club? A library? Maybe an equestrian center (the Yorba Lindese are very much the "horsey" set.) Having failed again to hook up with the Moedadster for a more manly ride, I decided to hop on the GZ and go check it out, once and for all.

To get to Hidden Hills you do have to literally cross the tracks. And the crossing is not convenient to get to. They don't want every Tom Dick and Harry driving around the place. It's actually sort of on my way in to work. Went down past the regional park, did a left, right, right - back underneath Fairmount to Esperanza and I was soon up in the heights of Hidden Hills.

Take a look at some of the little houses I snapped while up there. Afterwards I wandered around the rest of Yorba Linda. At one point I was slowly being tailed by a LEO for a good stretch. Didn't actually get stopped though. I suspect one of the locals called them when they saw me taking pictures. Probably thought I was the OC paparazzi.

Finished up in style at the Jack in the Box just outside the gates of paradise. Never figured out what that giant white stucco and blue glass thing is. I think it's just someone's house.

UPDATE: I did some Googling on the word "Satsang" that appears on one side of the building entrance. This is a Hindi word for a kind of religious get-together, so the mystery building may serve, at least part of the time, as a Hindu temple.