Rotating Wobbly Hat
I'm afraid I have to dispute your post. By the most direct route (the 5 freeway to the 10 freeway), Disneyland is 40 miles from Santa Monica. Usually, the last hotel shuttles from Disney leave as the park is closing, or an hour beforehand. During the winter, the park closes usually at 8pm, during the summer it closes at midnight.
The average person walks roughly 3 miles an hour, so to go by the most direct route would have taken him 13 hours. Ok, that's plausible if your brother left at 7pm and ran a little bit. However, CHP would have picked him up already for walking on the freeway. But he also spent 3 hours drinking coffee in Denny's, as well as hanging out with some guy?

As for walking, with no street map, I don't believe a word of it. Even natives get lost just driving around LA and Orange Counties with a map. He'll have walked through prevalent gang areas, and the main streets are horrendous, and the amount of police activity in those gang areas is huge. He would have/should have been stopped.

And I really can't believe he just didn't call the hotel, or ask for help. Especially when you're that far away from where you're staying.
Are you sure you weren't in Santa Ana? That's the next town over.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 22 Apr 2005, 9:01, Reply)