San'ya has aged with its residents, old men with creased faces and missing teeth who squat and smoke on the pavements, drift from bar to bar, or sleep it off in thewintersun on cardboard and plastic matting.
The wind in California tends to blow the strongest at night and in thewinter while thesun obviously is at its strongest during the day and in the summer months.
In thewinter, when thesun is in the south, it shines on the entrance and heats things up in the summer, thesun moves to the north and the cave entrance is in the shade, keeping things inside cool.