Digest NY Introduces 'Out in California'
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 4:05PM We spent three nights camping along the Pacific Coast Highway before arriving in San Francisco. As we settle back into New York, and recall stories from the road, we'll be adding to this series of vignettes. Each night out there exposed us to new people and new environs and left us inspired to share them with you. Sometimes the tales have to do with food, sometimes they don't. Either way, you can expect one every Tuesday until we get to San Francisco. Welcome to Out in California.
I left Intelligentsia Coffee on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice around ten o’clock on a Tuesday morning. My destination was San Francisco, but I didn’t plan to get there until Friday. That gave me three nights of camping wherever I saw fit to do so along the Pacific Coast Highway. My only agenda was to have camp set up by nightfall, and after tacos for lunch in Santa Barbara, that happened for the first time 135 miles north in San Simeon State Park. Site 229 seemed like the right fit.