Monday, May 19, 2014

Day 19 - Santa Barbara to San Diego

Tuesday 29th April

We spent the previous night in a really lovely motel, Marina Beach Motel.  We actually found it from watching an episode of World's Greatest Motorcycle Rides!  We watched one particular episode a number of times, it was when the host Henry Cole was riding down Highway 1 from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

I think Melissa and Hannah were a bit over having to share a bed as we found lots of notes that they had written and laid out for everyone to see...




Our drive south to San Diego was expected to take about 4 hours, so we allowed ourselves until lunch time to explore Santa Barbara.

So we borrowed some bikes from the motel (and hired some down the road for the kids) and went for a bike ride along the waterfront.

The bikes aren't what we are used to, they are all cruisers, with no hand brakes, it took a while to get the hang of peddling backwards to stop.  I managed to take some photos with my phone while biking...













Santa Barbara is really beautiful and another place we would love to come back to and spend some more time.

Sadly the drive today wasn't very interesting...


Apart from a bit of a coastal route through Malibu, the rest was all highway driving.  We did stop quickly in Malibu and Melissa had a run along the beach while Hannah was sleeping in the car...



Then even Melissa had a sleep in the car, this is a miracle, as Melissa hardly ever sleeps in the car...


We soon arrived in San Diego for the last destination of our holiday.

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