my name is Jeanie and this is my husband Vince in 2022 we became proud new owners
of our first truck camper and have been enjoying many fun road trip adventures
with it in this series we are headed to the California coast for a two-week truck camping
trip in our last episode you saw us wake up next to our beachfront campsite where
we watch sea lions and dolphins swim by in the morning we explore the Malibu Pier in downtown
Malibu California and went tide pooling at a nearby State Park and found tons of sea life
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but it's time to move onward
while we just say goodbye to our two wonderful nights at the Thornhill broome
background kind of just north of Malibu and now we're heading further north so today we have about
two and a half hours of driving um but we gotta do some grocery shopping it has been like exactly one
week we left one week today so we have to get some eggs and just some kind of essential type foods so
we're gonna stop at a Walmart and then keep it making our way up the Pacific Coast Highway to
Pismo Beach and we do have a campground book there too um if you watched my previous Vlogs I kind of
mentioned how getting you know Oceanfront camping dispersed camping free camping um that's not very
easy to do in California so we're taking advantage of campgrounds now for the next few nights just
because we want to be by the ocean they're only like 42 dollars a night so it's really not that
bad in new room by the ocean background so we will take the campground scene to be by the ocean
otherwise and at any other point we are all about dispersed camping it is 8:11
in the morning and yeah so let's get started with our day so we are in Oxnard, California
going to the Walmart digging all the palm trees in the parking lot of Walmart we're stocked up
I have to remember if it's a neighborhood Walmart don't go to it
they don't have half the stuff you want there and they're so small
but now I know no neighborhood markets we don't have those in Colorado at least not where we live
so I'm not used to them they're just so small and half the things you want [Music]
so we just drove to whereby Santa Maria oh my gosh so once we got to like Santa Barbara we took like
this rode through like the mountains up to Santa Monica it was the fastest route oh my gosh it is
so beautiful here there must be like some uh uh ocean weather going on because it's like there's
clouds coming in and out of all these Hills and mountainous area everything's like green
and Lush and so beautiful it's like we feel like we're driving through like Ireland or Scotland or
something with all the Rolling Hills and the Moody clouds and then there's like cows and oh my gosh
this is so pretty so different it's not on the coast
um it's more Inland but it's so beautiful oh and there's Vineyards everywhere oh
we are only probably like 15 minutes from Pismo we're just getting gas right now Vince
is putting gas in um but yeah this is beautiful see look at this you guys so we got a palm tree
the Green Hills and these clouds coming in out it's so pretty so what are we paying for gas
469 a gallon well this was officially the biggest gas bill we've had yet 104. [Music]
we made it to downtown at Pismo Beach California wow
this is like where you go surfing I think there's so many people surfing
oh my gosh this is gorgeous so the famous old west cinnamon rolls are right here we have to get one
it's got our cinnamon rolls oh my gosh you guys the place looked and smelled so good it was just a
line it wasn't too bad like we got through pretty quick these cinnamon rolls are only four dollars
each well except the one Vince got I'll show you that one here but here it is you guys only four
dollars so I just got the traditional cream cheese frosting Vince got the Maple and bacon so he has
bacon on top of his cinnamon roll and so we're down here by the Pismo pier and watching the
Surfers this is where we're having breakfast I got an ice mocha Vince got a regular hot mocha it's so
good is why they're famous that is one of the best memories
all right let's do a Pismo Beach for sure how's
your bacon that's really good kind of ridiculous team bacon maple right here
heavenly again this is perfect and these ice mochas and the hot mochas are
amazing so definitely get yourself a mocha and a cinnamon roll when you're in Pismo Beach foreign
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so we're working off those extremely good Sentinels we're gonna walk to
the end of the pier here in Pismo Beach um beautiful such a I don't know this town is
really pulling at our heartstrings this is really beautiful we almost we almost
want to say this is way prettier than like Malibu area um I mean don't get me wrong novels
it's pretty but this is something else to get it's so beautiful like I keep saying it because
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I think it's north B B Road it's only like four minutes from downtown
wow it's so green here so before we get settled we're gonna do our dump quick get
everything flossed out and fill up on water and we'll be set so there's a couple in front
of us they're so sweet so you're supposed to pay to dump here they have like locks
on the dumps but they left it open so we could dump for free that was sweet of them
um so I think we might pay it forward we have someone behind us we'll do the same foreign
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this is a nice side I'm pretty sure we have trails to the beach right here so fun fact
when I originally booked this Campground this was like many many many months ago
we were in site 32 which was like a poll in because that's all they had on the outskirts
and right before we left on this trip I went and looked to see
um if anything like that wasn't a Poland was um on the outskirts that opened up and
the site opened up so I flipped my reservation at last minute to this site I'm so glad we did
Vince is already going to check stuff so let's go I wanna see if there's an ocean back here
all right Sandy Trails up hear the ocean oh it is oh my God oh my gosh
wow
wow this is amazing
okay so the truck camper is just right behind this tree so campsite 24 Sandy Trail up bam
it's the ocean wow this is so pretty so right there is the Pismo Pier we were just walking on
oh my gosh the nice thing about this Campground is that it's in a campground off the road so
we don't get that traffic noise that we got at our last one but at our last one we were
literally like ocean front so there's definitely pros and cons of both but both are gorgeous
this is awesome oh and um they have showers here and dump so the other
one didn't have showers or dump so and this one was 42 as well so heck yeah 42 dollars
ain't gonna get no Oceanfront Hotel for 42 dollars truck camper top the hill ocean Troy camper
top the hill ocean and it's so Lush and green right now there's just like
Birds everywhere this is nice nicely spaced look at this big space between us and the next side
so we're walking around figuring out all the things so we're at the showers we just wanted
to come see him we're not charring right now but you have to pay for them tokens so it's
a dollar gives you two minutes so basically if we took 10 minute showers which is plenty
um it would be a five dollar shower so let's go see the showers
oh yeah what's this look like oh and then you can turn the water on with your little tokens Tristan
we got that figured out hopefully we got our chairs a Corona I got a mimosa
we're heading to our Beach spot well this is nice
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we're down here at the beach just from our Campground which is like right there
and this beach is really known for clamming there's lots of signs about clamming and the
size limits of the clamming and all the things so it's kind of fun there's also little seashells
around we're watching The Birds pretty sure dig clams out of the sand with their beaks
Finn's found a living clam I don't know that's the Pismo plant I have no idea we're not professional
clammers so we don't know there are clams very well yeah just put them back you bought another
one yeah so you're just like digging down into the sand and just pulling out clams well Dave
that's much bigger another professional glamor I guess I guess all right what do
you think if we move out here will you be a professional planner it's kind of fun
is there money and planning I don't know did he just dug up another one yes
go back into your home look at this one you guys it's pretty Stripes what kind of clam is
that one I don't know in other news we have not had dry skin since we got to the ocean
oh this like not too humid and like moist it's like a dry humidity but it's a nice
humidity enough where it doesn't dry out your skin and it just smells so refreshing
all right now we found a baby shrimp or something we don't really know what it is
we'll put them back yeah free so we decided tonight's gonna be a night where we dine out
we're just loving the vibe here at Pismo Beach and we're like I don't want to go out for dinner
tonight so that's what we're doing we found a sushi spot for tonight here in Pismo Beach and
that's what we're gonna have since the campground is so close we're like this is like the perfect
opportunity we don't have to drive very far to go out for dinner so yeah we're taking advantage
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open till five and there's already a line it's like quarter two it's sushi I think Japanese
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so we got an appetizer it's shrimp gyoza which is like deep fried dumplings and I
got a California and an eel roll and then fins go to California and a spicy tuna all
right well that was a nice experience a good sushi overall was it the best sushi
we've ever had in our life no but it wasn't the worst so um yeah so it's good it's good
Hawaii is the best yeah Hawaii will always win in regards to Sushi yeah until we get to Japan
one day maybe we're gonna take a shower we're gonna try something we're gonna share a stall and
we're gonna do 10 minutes which is five dollars for both of us do you think we can do it or will
events be trying to get more tokens arcade oh my gosh it was in 1995. yeah so I really hope
that's hot water because I will be mad if it's not because I can get a hot shower in my camper
we stayed at a state park in Arizona and it was the worst shower we ever had and we didn't have
to pay for it it was like part of our thing and so I'm kind of iffy about Campground showers at
state parks so that's a cold shower I'm gonna be real mad see how this goes token shower
all right is it hot no it's freezing cold oh my God that's like ice cold that better not take like
five tokens to get warm it's warming up okay we're good
I did my shower in three minutes Vincent is in two minutes so we only used how many coins
three three coins for both of us we have seven points left so yeah I wasn't like going super
super fast but I was going pretty fast and I got a complete hot shower in three minutes
vince has in two I've never tried myself taking a shower so that's very fascinating
so today we start making our way up the Pacific Coast Highway to Big Sur oh my gosh you guys
look at them all we have an intruder on our truck camper
we're Above the Clouds our one day to be on Big Sur and it's all cloudy and foggy
this is like Heavenly it's so gorgeous here keep your ticket because these also get you
into other state parks it's just getting prettier and prettier and prettier the
site is quite slanted down we'll just have to come back when we move here