RE: Beach and Side of The Road Camping along the PCH
I'm sitting here trying to pin down the exact area along Hwy 1 that this
applies to but it's well south of the Bay area and north of Santa Cruz.
While driving that stretch I'd noticed a lot of small RVs (including a
couple of Westfailas) pulled off on wide parking areas along the highway and
obviously parked overnight for sleeping.  Just up the road, at a rest area
turnout at the cutoff to Big Basin (Waddell Beach?) I ran into a guy that
was fulltiming in his Westy and we had a long conversation.  I mentioned the
beach parking and he explained that south of where we were, I believe Santa
Cruz county, that was okay, but just to the north, IIRC San Mateo county, it
was Big No No.  I think this info is accurate as to location, didn't take a
bunch of notes at the time but did just check the map to refresh my
recollection.