Day 17

This post is a part of a series on my three and a half week adventure road tripping to the west coast with three of my best friends in the Summer of 2018. I was challenged to write every day of the trip to document the adventure, so I did! My aim was to be as real and raw as possible while I was documenting and writing. Because of this, some days, I was honestly just not interested in writing, so I wrote very matter of fact “this is what we did.”

Check out the first part of the series here: Day 1 or check out a list of the days here: WCT2018

I wrote everything on my phone’s notes app, and below is word-for-word what I wrote each day. Nothing taken out, no elaborations.

As part of the challenge, I also made sure to take at least one picture every day, and each evening when I wrote, I picked one photo that I wanted to feature from that day. Some days it was hard to pick them, and other days I had only one to pick from.

A couple of notes: Each day that I wrote, I wrote the date, where I was writing from, and how many pictures I had taken that day. So the location doesn’t always reflect where the picture was taken.

August 7th
Lyon’s house - Thousand Oaks California
Pictures taken: 5

We finally made it to the L.A. area! We are still over an hour out from L.A., but it sure feels like we’re there. Traffic is already busy, even on the outside of town. It’s nice being able to talk to the Lyon’s and figure out timing-wise when will be good for driving. Though it seems in this area there isn’t really a “good time.”

We drove from Pismo beach today, so after dropping our stuff off here at the Lyon’s we didn’t have a ton of the day left. We ended up just driving down by the Malibu beaches and over to Pepperdine University. Pepperdine is a beautiful place. I’ve never wanted the college life, but wow. If I had a campus like that, I might reconsider. Definitely some beautiful places and homes that we drove by down near Malibu. We got back pretty early to avoid too much rush hour traffic, so we got to visit with the Lyon’s while we made and ate dinner.

It’s been so cool to be able to meet and talk with people along this trip. So much that you learn and just new things. The beauty has been incredible, but the people have been right up there with it!