Mileage - ~240 miles (via Santa Monica, Mexican Border, San Diego and Carlsbad - Carmel Valley?)
Went out last night in Santa Monica. Lots of bars and Restaurants everywhere - all of them packed. Jaffa had a bit of a Charlton Heston "Planet of the Apes" moment as we walked onto the pier. "Dammit all to hell" - after 4500 milles Jaf thought that he was back at South-End Pier in Essex. Amusement arcades, pikeys drinking lager and fishing off the pier, etc. It also got suprisingly cold despite getting up to 33C (about 90F) yesterday in LA. We went down to the beach and touched the water which was warm though and finally we ended-up in a nice little Italian restaurant after taking a photo of Jaffa outside the Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant. On another note we also thought that we saw Will Smith last night (and Kevin Bacon in a Prius in LA nr. Bel Air).
We finally made it to a launderette and washed all of our festering clothes. The bloke on the machine next to us looked like an aged Jimi Hendrix - we asked him how the machine works as we'd never been to a launderette before. He was funny and told us to put the powder into the conditioner bit so we ignored him (which was good).
After going down Muscle Beach/Venice and seeing the sights (cool place but we left before it got hot and therefore didn't see Pamela Anderson or Hasselhoff), we decided to head down to San Diego and the Mexican border as it's only a few hours drive. We had a good view of Tijuana in Mexico, but turned around as we'd probably have problems with visa's and the hire-car.
We're now in a place called Carlsbad as we've started down Route 101 - The Pacific highway. Did 240 miles today despite not leaving Santa Monica until late afternoon. Most of the places en-route seem like a playboy's paradise, this was the scummiest place we could find but it's still pretty flash. We've walked around for a while and found another excellent bar/grill on par with the Inyokern one. It's a real surfer place and Jaf commented on how all the women are nearly as beatiful as his wife (editor - I think he started missing her by this stage).
Highlight - Mission complete (we made it), having clean clothes, Venice Beach, seeing Mexican border, seeing marijiuana man and roller-skating Jimi-Hendrix in Venice, Pacific Highway.
Lowlight - Some drunken black guy shouting his head-off/roaring in the street outside of the hotel in the middle of the night (the Po-lice were on the case eventually though), wasting time doing laundery (Jaffa insisted on puting the clothes through the drier 10 times, traffic, California is a bit more expensive than the rest of the US..
Tomorrow - contiune along Route 101 to Santa Barbara, Malibu and beyond.
Andy and Jaf.
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