Since being in New York we have spent 3 days at Santa Monica beach. It was our first slightly scary experience since we have been travelling. Never seen so many homeless people sleeping on the beach, on benches, almost anywhere you can think of! A highlight of our time at Santa Monica was going to a Dodger's baseball game. We went with two english girl's we met at the hostel. Dodgers won -yey! Collected a car on Thursday and started to drive up the east coast of California towards San Francisco up route 1. Absolutely amazing views, the hills and roads would not have looked out of place in the Alps. Lisa was so scared and VERY travel sick on the hair-pin bends! Stopped off on various beaches that looked nice along the way. On one,
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