Pismo Beach, CA

Our next stop was the famous Santa Barbara which was everything we were told it would be. We never had that much time and it was not one of our planned stops, but we drove around for a while, stopped off on the pier and took some classic pictures. From there we found a great location a few hundred miles up the coast which fell within the boundaries of our new driving policy which is to find a place to stay for the night by the latest 4:30 as after that it starts getting dark and becoming an issue and places start closing.

Our stop was Pismo Beach which was this very cool little town with amazing beaches, great waves and a really cool town center. It has an outlet mall too which is a bit dangerous because on occasion I have been known to shop more than a woman.

We pitched our tent right behind the sandbank that separates the beach from the camp site and got ready for dinner. We had bought a large crab from the supermarket, granted it was already cooked, but it looked too good to pass up. We boiled some rice with the pot we bought at the thrift store and we had a meal fit for a king. It was getting cold again and the can of Sapporo I had in the boot was already cold so Celia and I enjoyed some ice cold Japanese beer with great tasting crab along one of Californias finest beaches, absolute bliss.

I woke up pretty early while Celia was still snoring away and went for a run along the beach, it's a really long hard beach where people run their dogs and ride their bicycles. Breakfast was the usual affair with my bowl of Kellogs 'All Bran' v's Celias Granola.

We rounded up our gear and headed for the Outlet Mall to end off our stay in Pismo, got a bunch of stuff for under a tenner which is unheard of anywhere else in the world and back on the 101 to San Francisco