Really enjoyed San Francisco and the Hostel
we stayed at in Fort Mason. It was definitely the best one we’ve stayed in so
far - it had a mini cinema onsite as well as a cheap cafe and huge lounge. The
staff were all really friendly too...including the very loud, but funny, Chinese
laundry lady.
We left just after breakfast on Thursday
morning. On our way out of San Francisco, we drove up to the idyllic Twin Peaks
part of town, to get some views of the city on a sunny December’s morning.
The drive back to LA along the Pacific
Highway was beautiful. Amazing beaches round every corner and vista points for
stopping and taking pics/stretching your legs every half mile...it meant we
filled up the memory on our camera within a couple of hours.
Our final stop on Thursday was the Big Sur
State Park, where we stopped off for a little walk along a secluded beach
(equipped with its own waterfall!).
We had hopes of camping on the beach, but
once we arrived we realised there was no way of getting our camper down there,
so we set up camp a mile down the road. It was one of the nicest spots camping
spots during our road trip, with good views of the pacific (and within ears
distance of a very loud barking seal – bliss!).
Got up early on Friday morning to get a
good start on the last six hours drive to LA – it was such a nice feeling
making breaky in the warm sunshine for a change and not battling with extremely
frosty temperatures of the mountains.
Main highlight during our drive home was
stopping off at Malibu beach. Huge beach, which really makes you wish you could
surf and had a spare few million kicking around to buy one of the amazing
houses on the shoreline.
Got back to LA early evening after clocking
up over 2,388 miles on our wee RV overall. After saying goodbye to our camper,
we checked into a cheap hostel for the night.
