30: california coast

i love the californian coast. we didn't drive all along the Highway one but we did drive a bit of it. we left LA and drove along the coast to oxnard. so we passed by surfing malibu and the pallisades. we had a 2 hour stop in santa barbara which i think is way too litlle. i love santa barbara. sure, it looks rich and posh and clean. but it's so beautiful. i could have spend a week there. the beach is incredibly. the shopping street is even nicer than the third street promenade in santa monica. i love the fact that there are no high building in the city and that everything looks so colonial spanish. yes. i want to move to santa barbara asap. we did however spent the night in santa maria which is such a crap city. there is nothing to do there. honestly. i talked to some of the youngsters there working in jack in the box or other resto's and they complain too. however, they don't know nighlife in brussels and amsterdam so they do not feel the frustration that me and the pax thad when we arrived in santa maria.

we also stopped in solvang which was okay. it's a danish city that really looks unique. you don't feel in CA at all there. they even have a belgian bar where the menu is written in fucking french and where they only serve stella artois. i did speak to the owner of the cafe who is german. he said he would look into changing the menu into either just english or both french and dutch. i am sure he won't.

monterey is a bit boring and carmel is incredibly nice but too small. my passengers didn't like it at all. but i do. i really do. bye bye