Peck Family Adventure: Los Angeles to visit our friends!!

We made it down to LA to visit our friend John & his family! Cliff has been friends with John and his siblings since middle school; so we knew this was a priority for us! It was a long drive and California surprised us again! We might have, finally, learned the lesson though! So, route 1 does not have much for business, even from San Fransisco to LA. I think that, the location was why we got burned again! We arrived just south of Monterey and had dinner then thought we would continue on to Big Sur and spend the night! So, in this area, Big Sur, there was primarily no vacancy OR closed at 9pm! We paid $5.99/ gallon for gas!! And finally, at the very south end at 9:55 pm found a room at Ragged Point Inn!! Yeah!
Here we could hear the pacific and had a lovely view when we awoke. Then we were right back on the road!

We saw a large elephant seal colony right along the road, and some kite surfers at different points on rt 1. Once we made it to the rt 101 junction we decided to leave rt 1 behind with all its twists and turns and towns and get down to business! We still hit some traffic, but arrived in San Pedro, which is John's section of LA in the late afternoon.

We were on the go the whole time, and John is an awesome tour guide! We did a self guided tour and had a drink on the Queen Mary that evening after dinner. Then the next day we went to a Marine Mammal rescue center, where we saw seals & seal lions recuperating, then the Japanese Friendship Bell given to LA on July 4, 1976 in commemoration of WW II; then we went to the Cabrillo Aquarium. And wrapped it up with his Johnny and a bike ride on the strand from Venice Beach to the Santa Monica Pier!

We had amazing Peruvian deco, a meat dish with rice and beans that Sandra made for us, and really enjoyed Dani's guitar playing and the fun childhood home videos!!
Thanks to our friends for an awesome visit!! You are all the best!