Awesome post. Thank you. How long a drive is it from Malibu/Thousand Oaks to Santa Barbara up the 1? I Imagine the speed limit on PCH is 35 or so? Do I need to make it all the way to Santa Barbara or do the majestic views stop short of actually getting there?
If you are going to go to LA, plan on hitting traffic, which can be hit or miss. If it is a hit, plan on spending most of your time stuck doing nothing in the car.
I'd recommend if going into LA or any of the surrounding areas to look up some restaurants to hit up before getting there. There are some fantastic restaurants everywhere. You can look up some of the shows on Food Network, like Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, etc, and check them out.
There are a ton of museums and parks in the LA area. The last time I was at Venice, the parking was horrendous, but maybe they fixed that by now.
You may want to head one day south to the LA area, and then one day north to Santa Barbara.
In thousand oaks, or rather around Pepperdine University, you will also be close to Zuma Beach.
Outside of the restaurants and some of the parks, I can't stand LA. Santa Barbara is an awesome place to check out, and they have some good restaurants as well. There is also a little Dutch town just outside of Santa Barbara called Solvang that is pretty damn cool. You girl might like this place a lot.
I'm more into hanging out in relaxing and chillful areas rather than hecticness of LA....but there are a 1,000 things you can do down in LA....but more site seeing as you go north.
Oh, and if you are going to go south down to Santa Monica from Thousand Oaks, hit the 101 south, then cut over through santa monica. I'd avoid driving through the area into LA during going to work hours like at 8-9am....then getting off hours going out of LA between 4-6pm. In between isn't too bad. That said expect the unexpected in LA...lol.
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