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camping

Trestles and San Onofre beaches, San Mateo campground

August 8, 2009

Just less than an hour drive North on the 5 you’ll find Trestles and San Onofre beaches. For camping, I recommend San Mateo campground over San Onofre Bluffs. It’s nice that the bluffs are close to the beach, but the campsites there are close together and right next to the highway. San Mateo campground has [...]

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Yosemite

January 2, 2009

Wow. Yosemite is totally amazing. You should have at least four days off to make this trip, since it’s a pretty long drive. When I went, we drove up and stayed in Oakhurst the first night, which is the last town on the 41 with hotels, food and gas. There a couple of small towns [...]

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a weekend away… just north to Dana Point

August 12, 2008

Summer in Southern California is great for beach camping with friends. This past weekend I headed up to Doheny State Beach in Dana Point for camping and a wedding. The campsites were close together, but comfortable, and some of them were right on the beach. The wedding was held in a paved, canopy-covered area in [...]

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