Nov 24 – CA
Day 115 – Our Thanksgiving was spent as we never would have predicted ~ sitting in the van with the doors wide open, staring at the beautiful beach and Pacific Ocean. We started the morning by going to Santa Barbara and walking down the pier. It was a pleasant holiday morning with a few fisherman on the pier and a couple of cute little kids learning how to skate at the skate park.
fog rolling in off the ocean
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fisherman on the peir_____________Santa Barbara from the peir
Then we continued south on highway 101 (which highway 1 merges with in that area) and tried to hunt for a single parking space in any campground. After seeing the sign “Full”, over and over again, we gave up and found a great day parking spot right on the shoulder of the highway. We were allowed to park there until 7.00pm – yay! We parked, popped the top up on the van and ate and relaxed, as most Americans do on this day. We were quite humored by the amount of RV’ers this weekend; just south of where we were parked was about two or three miles of spots that were on the shoulder of the highway. You could pay $20 a night to park and ‘camp’ there and it was booked solid! It was impressive to see. I think this weekend is the most RV’s I have seen within 48 hours, I wish I would have kept a count.
all of those white dots are rv’s lining the coastal highway
Thanksgiving eating 🙂
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I want a thankgiving dinner toooooo
So, after sunset we figured we better find a place to sleep – and there were no more rest stops until after Los Angeles. Full, full, full or “no parking at night” was all we ran into until we hit Malibu. We finally found a resting spot at Malibu Creek State Park. It is in the middle of a valley and at the end of about 10 miles of curvy road on N1 north of Malibu and past Pepperdine University. It was a great state park and it was almost full, and would be by tomorrow night, we were told. It was expensive though, $25 for a spot – but it won us over because there were showers… and let’s just say we were a bit stinky ~ not all parks have showers 😉
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