Our pals the Simons head to the most amazing spot every year to wind down that last little bit of summer. Up past Santa Barbara and not quite to Lompoc off of the 1 is this beautiful beach, 14 miles off the road, called Jalama (pronounced with a HA). There is no internet or cell phone reception. There’s a store that has anything one could possibly ever need on a camping trip.
JT LOVES hanging with B at their house because they have an awesome pool and ping pong and a baby bearded dragon. JT and B and quite the buddies. The Simons love camping and doing cool stuff as a family. They have desert toys and a motor home and go tent camping a lot too.
We were invited to join them on there annual Jalama trip and it was such an awesome and fun experience! While they host the group campsite for about two weeks, we were able to join them for 3 days. We packed up our Mini Winnie and headed up the coast to this gorgeous spot. The company was great, food always tastes that much more amazing when you are camping, the kids ran free, body boarded, dug for sand crabs and just got to BE.
I got the chance to take an early morning run down the beach. There's something about running towards nothing that is so calming. I saw pods of dolphins, sea lions and more. It did freak me out a little as I ran seeing all the sand crabs and darn sand fleas. I tried to focus on the pretty lol.
Later that day, we walked the kids down to the same point I ran to earlier.
The kids found rocks and created their own "fire pit". They wanted so badly to make a fire and I, as me, would have said HECK no. But Mr. S was so cool that he sat there with them and helped them light their fire pit. They were all so aware and careful and excited that their plan worked. You know that, "I Have Made Fire!" feeling.
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| Our cool new friends, the Simons. Thank you for inviting us on this super rad trip! |
So much beauty surrounded this place. We got a chance to walk through the nature preserve areas with Hea Bug since JT couldn't be pulled away from the ocean. We heard this very sentence, "Body Boarding is my life!".
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| Flying kites |
We had the most wonderful time on this trip. It was great company, a beautiful beach, and lots of adventure. Being disconnected from work, phone calls, facebook, emails, instagram, blogger, texting, pinterest, was fantastic... I didn't think about anything and we were all able to be in each moment. We visited and read and laughed and grubbed and soaked in the end of summer magic.
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