I also head for Ventura (and subsequently drive the coast) almost every
Thanksgiving.  Guess why:

1) To get a home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner
2) To go surfing in my home town (and other spots)
3) To see Mom
4) To get the best Chile Relleno Burrito on the planet at Johnny's Burritos,
176 N Ventura Ave Ventura (take the California Street exit, check mapquest
or somthing for more).
5) All of the above, but definitely in reverse order!

ChrisR in SF

PS: Phil, pmail me if you and family would like to hook up with mine!

CR

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Phil Walker
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:27 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: California Dreamin - Trip up/down coast, need advice

For the Thanksgiving holiday week we are thinking about driving up the coast
of Cali (from south to San Fran). Our trip would be Salt Lake to Ventura, up
the coast to San Fran and over through Reno back to Salt Lake. We've been to
San Fran and to Southern Cal, but never in between. We're brining our young
son along (1.25 years) so we're going to be flxible about how long we drive
and where we stop. I'm looking for some suggestions on:

- Things to NOT MISS on the coast.

- Good places to camp (or any place to camp!) -- We've stayed at some of the
various beaches south of San Fran, so I'm assuming there are campgrounds
like this all along the coast

- Good places to EAT! Any hole-in-the-wall resturants would be great. It
would also be neat to find a cool place for turkey day.

- Busses to meet! If anyone is doing the same thing, we'd at least like to
know where we can wave at you.

- Anything else I may have forgotten.

The end of the trip is open-ended, so we don't need to be on too-tight of a
schedule (7-9 days I think). We're looking forward to a happy turkey day!

Thanks,

-Phil (Suzanne, Sage and Star - yorkie)

SLC, UT - 89 Westy --> Blue with yellow v'gon.com stickers