I went with sister PD and friend ML to Pismo Beach in July. What a cool place that is. It's about 5 hours from San Diego, so we did a road trip. ML had lived in the area so she drove her comfy Lexus and gave us a bit of history. On the way up we had lunch on the gorgeous Santa Barbara harbor. We also took a short detour over to Solvang, which is a delightful, touristy, german town. We stayed in DD's rented huge home on 3 acres. It was comfortable. Saturday, we went into San Luis Obispo and shopped and had lunch. At sunset we went for a dune buggy ride in the dunes in Oceano. What a hoot that was. My favorite part of the trip. I would do that every day if I could. There's an 8-mile stretch of beach where 1,000's of people camp along the shoreline in motorhomes, tents, cars, whatever. Behind this long row of campers are the most beautiful natural dunes you've ever seen. People ride motorcylces, quads and dune buggys all day and night. It's quite unique. That night ML and PD cooked an awesome dinner for us. The next day, we left around 1:00 and headed home. It was a great weekend! I'm so glad we went because DD has pulled out of Pismo so we won't get the opportunity again.
My friend Elena from Scrapbook Royalty and I went to downtown LA yesterday to purchase items for the upcoming Royal Slumber Crop. The ride up only took about two hours and was awesome because the view of the mountains was spectacular. They were white with snow. Hard to get a picture from the car, but here's a little bit of the view. We went through fabric stores, bead & button stores and of course hit the Starbucks a couple of times. It was not crowded and we spent the majority of the day just shopping and gabbing. It was a lot of fun. 
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