Sunday, July 30, 2006

28th July - The West coast of California

We stayed in Cambria for a couple of nights and it was great. It's a small town with not much to do, but the bed is comfy and the food is good so we just relaxed which is what we needed and what we did.

Cute huh?



Yeah right, a 3 month old Burmese something or other who has not learnt how to control his biting...



We did a bit of walking around Cambria and surrounding beaches which was pretty much all there was to do really. We did meet up with a cool Lady from Taiwan and her 6 year old son who we met in Yosemite. That was strange as it isn't the first time we have bumped into familiar people again. After Cambria we headed down to Santa Barbara.

The place is really great, much like Santa Cruz but more adult and less of a fairground attraction than the former. Again we pounded the streets and did another 10 ish miles of looking around. Did a bit of shopping again and walked the length of the beach that we could.



We had fish n chips at the end of the pier at a restaurant called the Moby Dick where we watched our first sunset. That was pretty weird as it took a whole 2 minutes for the sun to fall out of the sky and we were left with the dusk.

A small story I'm just allowed to tell is that Sarah took the picture and thought there was a little man on a Kayak in the picture above and wanted him in the shot. But after the sun went down she wondered why he didn't go into shore as it was dark. The little man turned out to be a bouy...

As good as Santa Barbara was the Hostel was bad. We were warned by Tristan 'Smug mode' Jones that it wasn't too great, but it was the only one we could get and we only had one night. So there were 12 of us crammed into a corridor with no cooling system or fans or anything on a very very hot night. Add to this the Amtrak train station a mere 50 yards from our window and sleep was a difficult commodity. Here in the US the train drivers like to make use of their horns... alot... like all the time. I hate them! As much as Sarah hates spidey.

Time to hit the road now and to mini van it some more.

Laters for now
Pricey

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