Destinations: San Francisco to Portland--The Coast

Here's the deal: this is one of those on-the-fly travel videos in which loads of footage is presented in not necessarily logical order while a pair of radio DJ types deliver voiceover narration (with hesitations that suggest they're reading the script for the first time). Beginning in San Francisco, the program travels up the coast to Portland, offering mismatched sights and sounds along the way (talk of beautiful Easter lilies, for example, while viewers look at two guys staring at a jalopy; or a mention of art galleries as the screen--with unintentional surrealism--displays a tub of dead fish), long stretches of narration-less sights (in the segment on Jenner Bay, we hear nary a word, though we are treated to the apparent tourist attraction of watching a woman enter a porta-potty), and commentary that is fairly bland and generic when it isn't downright odd (looking at the 2,000-year-old Redwood trees, prophylactically filmed through a car windshield with attendant glare, we're told--apropos of I don't know what--that the trees' "ancestors date back to the dinosaurs"). Not recommended. Aud: P. (R. Pitman)