What it looks like is Pelican is on peer1.net backbone So Cox drops your connection straight to Peer1.
But peer1 does not have a link from LA to San diego.
If you use the traceback tool on their site ( »
lg.peer1.net/ ) to go from them in LA to the third hop in your trace it is 44ms.
Router: Los Angeles, CA
Command: traceroute 68.6.11.162
Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to 68.6.11.162
1 77.67.70.205 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
2 216.221.157.54 [AS 3257] 48 msec
77.67.79.230 [AS 3257] 40 msec 44 msec
3 68.1.1.251 [AS 22773] 36 msec
68.1.0.205 [AS 22773] 40 msec 68 msec
4 68.6.8.15 [AS 22773] 44 msec
68.6.8.5 [AS 22773] 40 msec
68.6.8.15 [AS 22773] 44 msec
5 68.6.8.68 [AS 22773] 44 msec * *
6 68.6.11.205 [AS 22773] 44 msec * 44 msec
Looks like it is Peer1's routing taking you to Dallas before LAX.