Blogs from Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America

Thursday, May 03, 2012 We traveled yesterday. We followed highway 1 along the coast. Just below San Simon stopped along a beach that was covered with seals. On closer inspection they were much larger than the harbor seals. The beach was packed with several thousand elephant seals. It turns out that they come to this beach almost year round. We were able top get very close to them. Many were molting. We arrived at El Capitan campground about 4 PM. Our campsite overlooked the ocean. We took a long walk along the ocean and watched another spectacular sunset. We ate a late dinner and fell asleep with the waves crashing just below our camper. Today woke up early today and went down to the ocean with coffee. We just stepped on the beach and we ... read more

Today was our final full day in Santa Barbara before moving north to San Francisco. As next week will be quite busy with various different places that we plan to visit in San Francisco, today was our last opportunity to relax and have a bit of a lazy day. We had a lie in and didn't wake up until around 10am, and we took our time getting ready, knowing that we had planned to talk to our families on Skype at around dinner time, so there wasn't much point going out just to come back shortly after. We watched some TV and then went on Skype at around 12:30pm and chatted to our families on there for a while. By the time we were done, it was around 1:30pm and we were absolutely starving as we ... read more

Today, we woke up early at around 7am, as we needed to be ready to catch our train to Santa Barbara this morning. We got washed and changed, before going down for some breakfast. The usual cereals, pastries, toast, coffee and juice were available, and Emma went for a bowl of cereal whilst Craig went for a solitary donut. We went to Walgreen's around the corner for some water and a postcard for Craig's aunty (he had said that he would get her one from every main city that we went to, as she collects them - so there you go Bec, you've got a Hollywood postcard!) then went back to our room to grab our bags/cases and check out. We walked the short distance back up the road to the metro station, where we caught ... read more

Nachdem i mi fuer die eine Nacht in der Jugendherberge angemeldet hab, bin i am Strand gegangen. Des war unglaublich, hab so eine Freude gehabt. Dort is es so schoen, wie ein franzoesischer Strand, nur des Wetter is berechenbar. Viel zu wenig Zeit am Strand verbracht...! Aba vom Fischersteg aus schaut der Strand wie aufm Foto. Dort hab i a Postkarten gefunden, die i aba nu ned abschicken konnte.... read more