The Los Angeles Skyline. It took all of 3 minutes for us to decide to give this place a wide bearth and keep going to the beaches of Southern California.

Santa Monica or Los Angeles? Mmmmm Lets take the Santa Monica route.

Welcome to California! We joined a long queue of cars crossing the "agricultural checkpoint" as we entered California state. As far as we could see nobody was actually being stopped or questioned.

Monday morning 19th March 2012. James looking very happy by faithful Hurricane overlooking the Pacific.

From our RV park looking north up the Pacific Coast Highway. Which is a bit like the road from Elie to Anstruther.

Monday 19th March 2012. (Happy birthday Rebecca Wilson) So this morning we woke up to a sun drenched beautiful Californian day. The weather is really stunning, bright blue skies and the temperature is starting to warm up nicely. Ken is off doing manly things in the laundry room, James is off down the beach and I'm sitting in the RV updating the blog. During a good trip down from Las Vegas, where we saw all 4 seasons in one day, we dropped around 4000 feet in hight and achieved a big moment of the trip when the Pacific Ocean came into sight. It was always a goal to swim in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and by the end of today, we should have achieved that. Las Vegas seems a distant memory now and it is in stark contrast to the beauty and natural wonders of the Pacific coastline. Upon checking into the RV park last night it was the closest experience one could imagine to an American version of Faulty Towers. The married couple responsible for check-in were doing fine, all be a little slowly and we had agreed a suitable pitch. Just at that moment, Madam Faulty appeared and very quickly asserted her dominence on the other two. "If you are giving them this pitch, they will have to pay another $12" "why?" I asked. "Because this pitch has a 50 Amp power supply". "We only need 30 Amps" I assured her "and that is why your colleagues have given me this price". "It is not possible" she exclaims. "How do I know you will not use 50 Amps" she exclaims. "because the RV can only take 30 Amps" I plead. "Any more and it will blow the system". "You may have a seperate hook up facility and take the electricity anyway" she accuses. "What are you saying, I may be running some sort of cottage industry from the back of the RV and need the extra power to keep the lathes or printing presses running all night?" After almost 30 minutes of inane conversation (bearing in mind the park is only half full), I suggest that we stop this conversation now and we will carry on and find another park. Within seconds all was resolved and we got one of the many pitches available with a good view. Seriously, this lady made Basil Faulty appear intelligent.

We have just over 400 miles to go to San Francisco, if we take the most direct route. However, we plan not to take the most direct route and we will meander slowly up the coast line to Big Sur and take the trail from there enjoying the scenery and relative ease, doing a little over 100 miles each day. We plan to be in San Francisco for Thursday afternoon and stay 2 nights, before our flight home on Saturday evening but that is a long way off still and I know there will be many more experiences to come before then. It's just after 6.00 pm back in the UK, which means its 11.00 am here. I will try to post more before our day is over.