Some LA Questions

Hi team.

We arrive into LAX at 8:00am on a Sunday in early May - and pick up our car. We'll spend the night near Santa Monica, and the next day head to Santa Barbara for the night ... before spending a few days re-visiting the PCH as far as Monterey, then Yosemite NP and San Francisco.

I would like to visit the Getty Museum (and also do a pass through "Hollywood" - cheesy I know, but on my several arrivals into LAX I haven't done it), and also stroll Santa Monica, and Venice I guess. We also have a friend we could see in Marina Del Ray.

So my question is - should we see the Getty etc on that first day (Sunday), and then the next day, drive straight through to Malibu etc, and spend a fair bit of time in Santa Barbara, or should we leave the Getty until the Monday (less crowded?), and then head to Santa Barbara somewhat later, because SB doesn't hold that much that is interesting?

We like strolling neighbourhoods, looking at nice buildings, having a coffee, and doing other small-scale stuff in cities. And in terms of our timing, there is almost no jet-lag on arrival into LAX from Australia, and I am used to driving in big cities in the US on the right-hand side.