Heck, I would love to take a herping trip again down the coastal route myself but it's way out of the way if I'm headed to Modesto/Bakersfield/Barstow/San Bernadino area which is usually the case when I go CA way. There's not only infernalis along the CA coast but there's some downright awesome spots for coast garters and atratus', and king snakes too. I know a spot right on the beach where literally thousands of coast garters congregate in the spring and also places near L.A. that have banded kings with unusually high band count/high white. All I tend to find inland is mostly gopher snakes and rattlesnakes.