An easy start to the morning, it was lovely to hear the sound of the waves through the night and wake to the beautiful blue ocean.
A little bit of school work for Noah and Wes and then it was time to walk and catch the bus to Santa Monica.
After arriving at the bus stop, Pete discovered there was not another bus for at least 40 minutes. When we had researched this last night we were under the impression the buses ran every 20 minutes. We have later discovered that public transport in Los Angeles is apparently terrible. It’s either non-existent, unreliable and rarely on time.
Hence, why the roads and huge freeways are completely congested with cars, all day, all night.
Time to call an Uber. Unfortunately, after flagging the Uber and driving a few minutes down the road, we found that the main coastal road to Santa Monica was closed due to a bad car accident.
The result was an hour plus Uber ride around the Santa Monica Hills, onto various freeways and side roads (I think we may have passed through Bel Air at one point) with an Uber driver who liked to use the pedal and break a lot, sometimes at the same time…
At least we had a scenic drive around L.A.
Finally, we arrived in Santa Monica and the end of Route 66, safely.
We walked the Santa Monica Pier and amusement park, took the mandatory Route 66 end pic and had a light lunch at a pier cafe.
Next, walking the famous boardwalk along the beach to Venice Beach. It was a lovely temperature to be walking, people watching and soaking in the sun and sea.
Then we arrived at bohemian Venice Beach, filled with street stalls, performers, colourful murals, wacky people and unfortunately and sadly, lots of homeless. We continued walking the boardwalk, people watching and stopped to look at the skate park and boardwalk basketball.
Time to return back to our nice, peaceful spot in Malibu. This time the coastal road was open and we had a nice quick journey back. They do like to drive fast and up the front car’s butt in LA.
A load of washing with a laundry that has the best view in the U.S, time to relax and a lovely BBQ in the motorhome for dinner.
California Dreaming…
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