Malibu and Los Angeles Day 5
Trip Start
Jul 23, 2000
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Trip End
Aug 21, 2000
Malibu, California
Friday, August 25, 2000
The first low point (but it was a good experience as well) has to be Death Valley. When we arrived, we knew things would be difficult but we did not account for:
1) The blistering heat after the sun went down;
2) The blasting wind;
3) The hard rock which did not like the tent pegs;
4) Everything radiating heat.
We survived! Up in Alaska, camping in the campground next to where someone had been eaten by a bear 10 days previously was also very frightening. The second night, I was truly frozen with fear as we had been eating fish and we smelled of smoked salmon. We survived.
Finally, the day we arrived in San Francisco and did our, "Let's drive 150 miles to every campground only to be told its full". Sleeping in the car was OK but it’s the thought of being pestered told to move on by the police that worries me.
Oh of course the day before yesterday’s discovery of no tent pegs was a real low point. However, we have come through the other side without any scars but certainly some stories to tell!
Back to today! I was tired this morning as we had had a good chat with Erica and Jamie, two girls from Ohio who had the pitch next to use.
They had been down to Tijuana and were going to meet friends in San Francisco and go to a party iun the Castro area.
Even though we had only known them for half a day, we got on really well. I was sad to see them go son soon.
After our habitual wash, we gave the car a thorough clean on the inside and I washed it on the outside with a dish cloth and a 2 litre bottle of water.
The beach was great and we spent the whole day there! Finally at 6.00pm, we called it a day. Just before we left 3 men appeared in military uniforms and 2 were simply abusing the third (MR Chiu( by making him run in the water, run down the beach. What a bunch of weirdoes. If this was some sort of joke, it was not funny. If they were army, they are nothing but bullies and should have been arrested.
We ate as the sun went down and enjoyed the dusk.
