California life: beaches and wine tasting

We started the day with a stroll in the Venice beach, and then headed
to the Pacific Coast Highway, the road which many say to be the most
beautiful in the country. It started with LA beach suburbs (ie.
Malibu), we visited also one beach there, dipped our toes and thought
we haven't come this far to swim in cold water... You wouldn't know it
by looking at the map, but the Pacific ocean is really cold! Water
temperature was around 60-70 F / 16-20 C.

"Lunch stop" was in Santa Barbara, where we strolled around the beach
area and finally went swimming to the Pacific Ocean. It was still cold
but there were so many people around us, we decided to inspire them
with our Northern courage. And after us, someone else also tried it,
so the inspiration worked!

We spent so much time on the beach we ended up missing the lunch time
of the restaurants. so we continued towards San Luis Obispo.

San Luis Obispo was a truly pleasant surprise for us again, we loved
the normal-sized streets with normal-sized houses, where we could
actually walk around the city!

Also a surprise for us was the "culinary" feel of the city, lot of
restaurants offering fresh produce from around the town, as well as
the wines! We ate at Big Sky cafe, again great food, and visited most
technological wine tasting room ever (simply called Taste), with
automatic tasting machines for over hundred wines from the Central
Coast Area, and an elevator/huge rotating shelf for moving casks from
the cellar.

Miles: 202