We’re on our way to Ventura, CA to visit the Channel Islands. We stopped at a couple of places along the way to break up the drive: 
If you’re driving down PCH from San Francisco to Los Angeles, those are 2 places worth stopping by.
Back to the Channel Islands. We didn’t know how much prep was needed to visit this park. Note to everyone: do your research before you get to the destination because what you expect to be an easy ride isn’t always the case. We get to Ventura and find a chill campsite by the beach to stay the night. 
We made the day an errand day to finish up some work on Yogi and figure out which channel island we wanted to go to. The first fail: most of the islands were closed off for restoration. Second fail: there’s only one boating company that takes you to Channel Islands and the rides were all booked up on the day we wanted to visit. So that sucked. We had to redo our plans since we had a Friendsgiving to attend in LA the next day. We decided we’ll attend the Friendsgiving and then drive back up to Ventura the day after to catch the 9am boat ride (booked that before heading down to LA, also the only ride that was available) to Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands.
On our way to LA we camped up in the San Gabriel mountains and was planning to do a hike to the Bridge to Nowhere in the morning. 
Well those plans didn’t work out either as we woke up to some surprise rain (we didn’t check the weather, fail #3?) Anyway we quickly packed up and decided to explore the mountains since we had some time before the Friendsgiving. We drove up to Mt. Baldy and was pleasantly surprised with some fresh powder.
We had some fun in the snow and then headed down to LA for the Friendsgiving. It was great to share a meal with old and new friends. 
Before heading back to Ventura we decided to do one tourist thing as it is Thanksgiving and people shouldn’t be out. We stopped by the Griffith Observatory and Hollywood sign. 
Now we’re headed back to Ventura to catch our boat ride in the morning. I’ll let you know how it went afterwards. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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