@iwishiwastheredude: An interesting fact about how America wrote “Ventura Highway” is that the song was inspired by a childhood memory of frontman Dewey Bunnell. When he was a kid, his family’s car broke down on the side of the road near Ventura, California, and while waiting for help, he stared up at the long, golden highway signs and the sunshine flickering through the clouds — that image stuck with him for years. Later, when he was living in London and feeling homesick, that memory came back, and he wrote “Ventura Highway” as a kind of dreamlike reflection on the freedom and warmth of California. The song’s breezy vibe and cryptic lyrics (“alligator lizards in the air”) came from that same sun-soaked, surreal feeling he had as a kid watching clouds drift by… #america #70s #folk #music