Ventura Inn

... became the benchmark for all other eateries we stopped at. Following dinner, we browsed through the downtown street festival which featured Ventura merchants selling both products and services.  It was a great visit to the downtown area, a visit we ...

... motel and check in.  Cheap!  $66 (inc tax) so that is a bargain.  Its clean and comfortable and close to the Ventura beach.  Cool!  We settle in our room and go for a walk to the beach.  We write Renee in the sand and then ...

... Santa Monica pier and beach watched the surfers taking the last few waves while the sun sets. Our final drive of the day was a picturesque drive through Malibu up along the Pacific coast to Ventura.  All in all the day was filled with awesome ...

... het heel normaal. Daarna lopen we nog een rondje door de stad. Half negen zijn we weer bij de auto. Nu willen we nog naar Ventura rijden, 50 km verderop, omdat daar de motels veel goedkoper zijn. Het is inmiddels donker, maar de weg is goed verlicht met ...

I woke up early on Saturday and called Island Packers to check the status of their trips to Channel Islands National Park. They were all cancelled due to high winds and rough seas.  My reservation for Sunday was for a trip to the Scorpion ...

... Dodge Charger. After a quick minute to set up the GPS, we hit the road for our 1 ½ hour trip to Ventura. We checked into a nice little Comfort Inn before walking next door to a very highly recommended restaurant called "In & Out" burgers. Not bad at ...

... , instead we started to make plans for tomorrow. We looked up for some info about the Channel Islands, an hour boat trip from Ventura harbour. There was barely a spot for us left in the Santa Cruz island campground but we got it. We bought some fruit, ...

After our continental breakfast, we drove around Ventura stopping to take photos of the San Buenaventura Mission and the Ventura Museum. We took 33 up to 150 towards Ojai then west towards the coast passing Lake Casitas.  We drove 101 north to Santa ...

... do but I soon came across a ranger giving a tour. Most of the tour participants were from the Island Packers trip that had left from Ventura. They were returning later than our boat so I couldn't stay for all of the tour. The ranger told us some of the ...

Toni: Yes, we finally got there! We drove straight from Oxnard to Ventura, took a motel and hit the beach. And no cops this time. Although there were these weird little (0.5-2 cm) crab-like insects that crawled out of the sand, jumped around a bit and ...

... putting a jigsaw puzzle together with pieces from dozens of puzzles. I thought about going on a second tour but I had a two or three hour drive to Ventura and I wanted to get there early before all the rooms are booked for the upcoming holiday weekend. ...