so one thing that I think is really cool about this place
is that it actually was a garbage dump
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So I'm super excited for today's
adventure because today's adventure is
a little place that we found on an app called atlas obscura and
this particular place is pretty unique to the California area in the sense that
it is a beach that used to be a dump site
and because it used to be a dump site the ocean has kind of cleaned itself up
a little bit and turned it into what is called glass
beach so we're gonna go check that out make sure that you stay
tuned we'll take you along and we'll tell you all about it
so this is probably one of my favorite places I've been I've been I got really
excited about this place because I'm a really I really am good at
finding some glass so this is probably one of my favorite
places and you don't have to look very hard here yeah you don't know
it's all over
over so it's super windy here but we're in this little cove where we're
protected a little bit from the wind the waves out here oh my gosh the waves are
just amazing um it's a really interesting beach because
it's not like you know sandy beach like hang out
like in the sun sort of beach but it's a beautiful beach
and uh with the wind the waves out further
just high highways and it's a pretty cool place to come it's
cold colder than I thought it was going to be
it's all bundled up and layered but just a
beautiful beautiful sight to see out here on the coast of California
oh yeah it's like a little cotch
so one thing that I think is really cool about this place
is that it actually was a garbage dump back in the early 1900s before
that people just really knew as much about the environment as we know now it
was a garbage dump and then there was cleanup efforts that
were done later on but that's how all this glass came to be
here was it was actually dumped here as part
of a garbage dump one of the things that I think is unique
just going through even these pieces that you know I'm
picking up is the uniqueness of kind of nature's
answer to cleaning herself up and you're
finding pieces that have you know some of them have
grooves in them still other pieces that are just completely
smoothed out they're just all different sizes different shapes just so
unique and I think that that's just really really
cool how you see mother nature clean herself
up in just such a beautiful way that has created this beautiful place
and I kind of think too I like to always think about like metaphors for life
when we're rving and talking to the kids and just even things that we can learn
to apply to our own lives and just like that metaphor of even when
things maybe feel like a mess or maybe when
you feel like that you're just getting garbage dumped on you
that something beautiful can still come from that and I think this is a great
example to that beautifulness that can come from
something like you know a garbage dump
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so the beauty of social distancing and reduced capacity in restaurants it
is a two hour and twenty minute wait to be able to have dinner at bubba gump
shrimp tonight so that's horrible because we really really
really really wanted to we're gonna wait the two hours and 20
minutes and kill some time here on cannery row in
Monterey and just see what else there is to do
but I'm starving and I'm gonna really be ready for dinner
by the time we eat so we're going to kind of cheat we're
waiting to eat dinner at bubba gump shrimp starving we're hungry
so we found this place that has an appetizer
that might give us by until we eat some shrimp
it's called Nestle Toll House cafe so let's see what they
have here and see if it'll get us by until we eat
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this is entertaining I must say I think mom's got it
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Bubba Gump Shrimp
what kind of shrimp bubba gump shrimp fried shrimp
fried shrimp coconut shrimp coconut shrimp lemon shrimp
coconut shrimp pepper shrimp shrimp soup shrimp stew
really hoping waiting two and a half hours to eat dinner
was a good idea I know but I have a feeling that
long wait times are going to be the new thing our popular restaurants
due to situation
it's so good
how's your pizza
good
so the sun is shining today which is an absolutely
beautiful beautiful thing we are gonna all
head up to Santa Cruz today the kids and I scoped out a beach there
yesterday that was just gorgeous and it had
something for everyone it had a boardwalk area
plenty plenty of space to spread out huge huge beach a boardwalk um
did I say boardwalk it had showers it had bathrooms it had just kind of
something for everyone waves plenty of sand to play in
nice areas to spread out so we're gonna go check that out today
and hang out and enjoy this California sunshine
while it is here because it hasn't been very sunny in this whole Monterey area
most of the time that we've been here so we're gonna just head up north a little
bit on the one and head to Santa Cruz
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really hoping that the sun comes out
I've got one kiddo that really wants a
non-pricey surfboard so we were told that costco oh there's a
surf shop at santa cruz surf shop maybe we can check that one out too
yeah this whole costco does carry surfboards but the cut not the costco
here I call them no no they're out but they do have
surfboards but they're out so anyway so we'll see I guess a lot of
people like circles here we will uh figure it out as we go but either way we
are in santa cruz and as the kids say we're going to
cruise santa cruz and check it out we're at a boardwalk area so
we're going to just kind of check it out and at least take a walk along the beach
so we'll see what we find so we found some sand and surf and sun
doesn't mean it's warm I put my sleeves up to get some sun on my shoulders but
I'm still pretty cold and Trinity's out there in the water I
have no clue how that she's not freezing right now it's cold
because it's sunny it will take the sun after days and days of cloudy skies but
we had to come up here to santa cruz to find it
but it's a nice beach nice little boardwalk area
um lots of lifeguard presents which makes me
feel much safer being here and of course stay in certain sun so we're going to
take advantage of that but it's always windy it feels like so
why are your lips orange
probably the cheetos
oh I still see thigh too
let me get some some water can I touch it mom
can I touch him
no thanks are you sure yep wait I think these are his bunch sticking out of him
maybe
oh geez okay do you see any vicious sea lions Trinity
do you see any all right guys vicious sea lions
Enter at your own risk
I'm entering at my own risk
just not a vicious one okay
oh I see him oh my gosh that's cool that is very cool
there's probably some otters around here too
you got him he's like he's like I am on it
dad did you see like he had red eyes did you see the red eyes
oh yeah
he was laser focused
I've never seen a sea lion leap up like that
oh my oh the bird got it oh that's that that's
so gross I got this whole fish I kind of want to touch it
I honestly want to touch I just don't want the bird to get I want him can I I
want him to get you can dodge it this thing oh that's so
slimy and gross oh that's so gross he'll wait for it
I can see him guys gross just keep it recording
whoa he's on it he's on it he's on it he's got it
does he have it yep he'll get it
yep he's got it he probably is uh taking it away so we had a lot of fun
in this Monterey area didn't we we did it it was
so much fun lots to see it was definitely a lot to
see now one thing that I don't think I was prepared for
that we realized after coming in is that it's significantly cooler here just
being so close to the ocean and the sun is like hit and miss
where it felt like it was probably cloudy more than it was sunny
but there's a lot of people we talked to here at the koa that we stayed at that
come here to escape the heat from warmer places in california where then this is
only maybe a two or three hour drive and so they actually like to come here
because yeah it's a reprieve from the heat in
kind of the central valley areas of California so
I wasn't necessarily prepared for that you know I was thinking oh
it's a good thing we've got the ac fix now and everything else and we didn't
even use the air conditioner once we actually turned the heater on at night
because it got down in the 50s which you know
some of y'all that are die-hard campers might be okay with
being 50 at night in the rig but i'm just too much of a glamper and not a
camper I like my climate control so we ran the
heater uh at night which it didn't run much but
just enough to kind of keep the chill off
or whatever but it was a lot of fun um the Monterey aquarium of course was
closed because of COVID so that was something
that we didn't get to see that given the times if it was a different
time probably would have been able to see
that it would have seen that if it was an option yeah so really looking
forward to that because apparently it's connected to the ocean so I was pretty
excited about that but there's always a next time yeah exactly
and that's the wonderful thing about rv life is that you don't have to have this
once in a lifetime mentality but you know it might be once in a long time but
it's not necessarily like once in a lifetime and I think that
this particular summer out we've realized that more and more and we've
slowed down our pace where you know versus staying in a place like
two or three days we've stayed for like a week at a time so just slow
down the pace a little bit um it's given us opportunity to focus on
our work which we've needed to do and we felt like that last summer we got
stressed with that moving around so much and it's also a
little bit less expensive because this thing
sucks the fuel and diesel in all the other places has been super cheap right
now but diesel in california is not as cheap
as it was in Nevada so
there's that but anyway so we really had a good time thank you for
fixing my hair in this area and yeah and now it's time
to pack it up and move on to the next spot
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