“It was 1963 when I was in seventh grade. We got a flat tyre, and we’re standing on the side of the road, and I was staring at this highway sign. It said ‘Ventura’ on it, and it just stuck with me. It was a sunny day, and the ocean there, all of it," said Bunnell while speaking about the song, as reported by Far Out magazine. “I remember vividly having this mental picture of the stretch of the coastlines travelling with my family when I was younger. Ventura Highway itself, there is no such beast, what I was really trying to depict was the Pacific Coast Highway, Highway 1, which goes up to the town of Ventura.”
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"All of the songs have some elements of the lives we've lived, I think, and the people we are," said Bunnell.
"Somewhat of a being out there alone and pondering this great expanse of the desert. That was the concept," continued Bunnell. "So the lyrics were written from my memory of the family. We were an Air Force family driving through the Southwest, through the desert areas of Arizona and the Mojave Desert in California."
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