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Beautiful Castroville

A travel blog entry by outsidebreak

... a beach chock full of elephant seals. Elephant seals are among the West's more awkward animals, and we watched for a while as they flopped around the beach, tried to bite each other's necks unsuccessfully, and piled on each other in mounds of sandy, whiskered blubber.

Entertaining as that was, we had business to attend to. Jonas and I each made a list before the trip of things we wanted to accomplish along the way. For instance, I wanted to ...

A bit here, and a bit there...

A travel blog entry by nickwardable

... this part of the trip, it was more like throwing darts at the map to see what smaller towns we can stay in, and what we wanted to see. We had obviously received some advice and recommendations from a few people who had gone before us, but as with life, everyone needs to touch the hot plate themselves and make their own decisions. So the first destination we decided to pick was Santa Cruz. Early start for us in San Fran to get to the Avis on time. The exciting part ...

Another great day!

A travel blog entry by royandclaudia

... pups...it was a VERY noisy spot but what an opportunity and a privilege to see and hear it all.

We still had a bit of time before our tour so we dropped into the state park and walked out on the pier. It was beautiful. This big long pier stretched out over the breakers...you could watch the waves break right underneath you. A couple of people were fishing on the pier but otherwise the place was deserted.

We crossed the highway and drove up into the parking lot ...

All good things must come to an end...

A travel blog entry by jasandjes

... and trying to steer you into their shop saying "you must BUY!" When we would calmly remove their arm from our pathway and say no thank you, they would grab our arm and yank it trying to force us to come in. That would be the line and we would both loose patience and yell at them to leave us alone and that we weren't buying their ****. We did encounter nice sales people, but in Kuta, there seems to be the highest concentration that are rude, aggressive, invasive and ...

California Dreaming

A travel blog entry by svenjaundheiko

... in den Staaten.

Parkplatzproblem gel�st. Endlich schlenderten wir etwas �ber den Boardwalk und am Strand entlang wo einige Leute Picknick machten. Kurz mal nicht aufgepasst �bernahmen die M�wen am Strand die Herrschaft �ber die K�rbe. In unserer Anwesenheit wurde eine Packung Popcorn und eine T�te Br�tchen geklaut und der Versuch gewagt, eine T�te voll mit Spielzeug zu klauen - f�r die lieben Kleinen wahrscheinlich.

Am Pier ein paar ...