California in the 'winter'

[Drew Sale]

We're down here for two weeks and my fiance is doing a course down here. i just came with cuz i get to take 2 weeks off work and explore Cali for weeks. this is how my day went today:

you pay $5/day and you can pull your car right onto the beach! mostly trucks but there was a Focus, Miata, and some other small hatch's too


it's just open beach as far as you can see


spectacular beach


another spot about 5 mins from our hotel (p.s. we drove over 25hrs on the interstate so the Cruze is a bit dirty haha)


as you can see we REALLY needed those brand new winter tires we had put on 2 days before we left Vancouver. grr




we decided to go for a drive at night and found this road. some MAJOR twisties! every 100m or so the road dipped down and there was a stream that crossed the road. even in our brand new car we had to slow to a crawl to prevent bottoming out coming out of the streams lol



p.s. how's the weather in vancouver? 

[Cole MacDonald]

Wow, winter looks rough down there! It sure looks nice! Sure makes me miss summer. Its just a mess up here right now with this thawing crap melting all the snow.

[Richard Steger]

Looks like Pismo Beach, big sand dune area down the beach from the road entrance?  Gorgeous scenery and weather.  Why do I live in this great white north?

[Drew Sale]

richard gets full marks on this one. it most certainly IS pismo beach. we went there last night and met up with a buddy down here. went the liquor store, picked up a 26 bottle of grey goose (for only $27 i might add), picked up some fire wood and sat at the beach listening to music drinking Goose and apple juice and had a fire on the beach until 4am. rough life i tells ya

[Amir Ali]

went the liquor store, picked up a 26 bottle of grey goose (for only $27 i might add)

WHaT?? Hell yeah...

have fun while it last Drew...

[Drew Sale]

we've been down here long enough to bring back the maximum allowable volume back across the border. so we'll each be picking up a bunch of bottles of Goose to bring home and last a year haha

[John Hartman]

nice    Looks really relaxing and fun.

too bad you didn't keep the stock rubber on tho, those will be half worn or worse by the time you get home again...

[Drew Sale]

ya i'm pretty choked about it. apparently when you cross the line into Cali there's a mountain pass, and if the conditions are icy or snowy and you dont have snow tires or chains they won't let you pass and you get turned around. and since the snowwies came with the car for free we figured it wasn't that big of a loss. we were on a time schedule and had to be here by a certain time and couldn't afford to get turned around. by next season we'll buy another set anyways so it's no big deal i suppose. still kinda sucks though 

[Jason Harwood]

we've been down here long enough to bring back the maximum allowable volume back across the border. so we'll each be picking up a bunch of bottles of Goose to bring home and last a year haha

1 26 per person is the maximum now a days,.

[Drew Sale]

eww. i guess we'll have to just figure something out.

p.s. it rained last night 

[Ryan Singh]

Beautiful pics bro!

[Brett Haviland]

It never snows up here anyways... so california.. or lower mainland BC... would have just wore ur snow tires out like i am this winter.