Next stop, Punta Abreojos; it's Spanish for 'open your eyes' and once you see the perfect rights (waves) you will open them wide. Truth is that the early Spanish explorers named this point on account of the reef that often sunk their ships. A few hundred years later, Ollie and Shay rock up and hit the jackpot. Abreojos is a legendary point break known for perfect rights, football field length rides, hard offshore winds and flies the size of seagulls. There are a...

The dusty dirt track we chose to take could have been any of the typical Mexican roads leading to nothing but garbage in the bushes. This one however extended beyond the rubbish dump and down to the Sea of Cortez, to a secret campsite known to insiders only; it reminded us of an RV equivalent to 'The Beach' movie/book. The Whistle-blower for the location of 'The Beach' was a really nice couple from Montana. We had met them a day before at an RV park in Mulege. T...

"It's moi! Big Tony! From the book!" Our new friend gestures with his hand trying to get the point through to us. Instead of encountering the expected bandidos as we entered Mexico, we made a good friend, Big Tony, the 'real live' character in the book "In Search for Captain Zero" by Allan Weisbecker. It's all true what they say about the pharmacies in the infamous Mexican border town, Tijuana. We literally had to zigzag our way through the...

Malibu.... "27 miles of scenic beauty", it says on a sign post by the road.... hmmmmm, OK? Crowded, small to 'non' surf, dirty water and chaotic traffic is what hit us when we drove into town. We were quite chilled out due to the quiet life we had been living in small beach towns so we were not ready for too much city madness, just yet. Malibu is close enough to LA to be pretty busy, especially on weekends. Our first mission was to find a Thai restau...

With the rain clouds at our heels we raced down highway 101 trying to escape it. We remembered the quaint seaside town of Morro Bay, we over-nighted there on the way to Vegas and had the best fish and chips ever. We hoped it would be far enough to escape this rain and continue with our plans to get the camper 'Mexico fit'. When the intermittent rain showers became one constant downpour, we knew our time in Santa Cruz was at an end. We had driven to Santa Cruz di...