Our Placentia event, Friday October 27, while in many ways a modest event, was also definitively the Best Freeway Blogging yet! Clipping our banner to the fence on an overpass over the northbound 57 for an hour during the slowest traffic of the week, we calculated that approximately 10,000 motorists and passengers read our message. And it seemed that about half of them honked and waved or put their thumbs up. We were so close we could see them all smile. More than once we saw a female passenger wave with her right hand and honk her husband's horn with her left hand.

Vern Nelson and Mark Tabbert on the overpass; later they were joined by Jane Rands.
We had so much fun we felt like doing this every day. At one point, a Placentia motorcycle cop who drove by complimented and congratulated us!

Here's a close-up of our banner & signs.

Vern, Constance, Judith, Jane, Curt, Mark and Angie!

Afterwards, we went to Marie Callendar's and met up with some more North-County members. We watched Don Schroeder's inspirational film (The Healthcare Solution: California OneCare) while eating dinner, and then made plans to get more members and supporters in the North part of the county, and to have a much more spectacular event in Yorba Linda in December.

Vern Nelson
714-235-VERN
Healthcare For All California, Orange County Chapter