We've had a busy few days.
Busy...but kind of simple looking back on it. Here’s a general overview of our schedule over the past four
days:
Beach - eat - beach - eat - beach - eat - beach - sleep - repeat.
Just the way I like it. J
I guess I could expound a little on the details.
Let’s start with San Diego. It didn’t take us long to fall
in love with this city. We struggled somewhat with the campsite situation here,
though, because we were close enough to the airport that a plane impolitely
zoomed over our heads at least every ten minutes. Not to mention, the mom of (what sounded
like) 23 children in the site next to ours was less than thrilled at one of
them for peeing in their sleeping bag! That was a saga in itself...bless their hearts.
But besides all that, we were able to see a lot of the city,
including the downtown area and beaches (of course). We strayed a little bit
from our previously mentioned routine here and took a morning to see the zoo. I don’t claim to be a zoo connoisseur, but I
thought it was pretty cool. My husband, on the other hand, is a zoo connoisseur
and was like a kid in the candy store! Long story short, we thought it lived up to the
hype. Oh, and the food in San Diego was
A+. We were 3 for 3 on picking delicious restaurants, plus I discovered a new
law of gravity..."T
he gravitational pull towards any white article of clothing is
twenty times stronger than that of any sauce-colored clothing, no matter the
size or location". I wore white shorts to
Hodad’s and got burger juice on the shorts, but not on the huge pink shirt that was
completely covering them. Another day, I wore a white
shirt to In-and-Out Burger, and got sauce on the shirt while the blue shorts that
the burger was sitting on escaped without a scratch...very mysterious.
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| Doesn't need an explanation... |
Anyway, from San Diego we went to Los Angeles. We checked out the
city and the Hollywood sign from the Griffith Park Observatory. Then we basically rode around
Hollywood and Beverly Hills like we owned the place...just checking it all out.
I’m sure our weighed-down, dirt-covered Xterra blended in just fine with all
the Bentley's and Maserati’s! (SIDE NOTE: We originally had our visit to LA all planned out, but Drew
Carey had to go and ruin everything that I’d worked my whole life for. I was finally going to be on The Price Is
Right! Sure, go on a hiatus if you need to, just pick any other week of the
year! But I’m not bitter...I just don’t want to talk about it.)
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| Panorama of Los Angeles from the Griffith Park Observatory |
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| Our campsite in Malibu! |
After checking out LA, we camped on
the beach in Malibu. Literally...on the
sand. It was actually a little bit scary. We checked the weather when we got there and saw the phrase “remnants of Hurricane Blanca”. That pretty much sums up our struggles in setting up camp. I’m already a chicken when it comes to gusty
winds, but it seemed amplified in the tent. I was almost certain that the wind
was going to pick us up, tent and all, and carry us all the way to Oz. Also, you would
think that somebody could put a toilet in the state parks, especially in Malibu…but
no. I had to dehydrate myself so that I wouldn’t have to use that poo-poo pit! Luckily for me, it turns out that my stubborn will is stronger than my bladder.
This segment of the trip was a bit of a learning experience
for me in other ways as well. I have been thinking a lot about Heaven since we set out a week and a half ago, mostly just because we look to seeing more of
God’s creation as a way of becoming more impressed by Him. One thing that I have been thinking about is that as beautiful as this earth is, it has to pass away. However, I’m pretty sure that God won’t
take this earth away to show us one that is not quite as awesome. Quite the
contrary! As blown away as we were by
the sunset on that Malibu beach, it hurts my brain to even try to think
about how blown away we will be by the new earth. So, even with all the set up
issues and lack of facilities…it was way more than worth it! And to think that we almost decided
to give up on it and find a hotel last minute...I’m so glad we didn’t. (Romans 8:18 - "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.")
Sorry, sometimes my thought process drags on.
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| McWay Falls at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park |
Today, we have spent our time on the Pacific
Coast Highway from Malibu all the way up to Monterey. This is going to be one of those paragraphs
where I don’t know any words that will get the point across for you to understand how awesome that drive is. Just
trust me, it’s absolutely unbelievable! The only problem was that most of the perfect
dream beaches were unaccessible. Not unaccessible as in we were too scared to
attempt the descent, but unaccessible as in there was a ranger with pen and pad
ready to write you a citation if you tried. It was torture! Here’s a few pics to give you a little bit of an idea about what I mean.
But besides all that, we were able to see a lot of the city,
including the downtown area and beaches (of course). We strayed a little bit
from our previously mentioned routine here and took a morning to see the zoo. I don’t claim to be a zoo connoisseur, but I
thought it was pretty cool. My husband, on the other hand, is a zoo connoisseur
and was like a kid in the candy store! Long story short, we thought it lived up to the
hype. Oh, and the food in San Diego was
A+. We were 3 for 3 on picking delicious restaurants, plus I discovered a new
law of gravity..."T
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