Matthew Tuffin Blog

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It was another washing day this was so I would have enough to wear for the remaining time I was here. Just before midday we booked a taxi to take the two of us to the airport, not to catch a plane but to pick up a car to travel further down south.

I had originally decided that I would rent something little sporty and thus chose a ford mustang, at the time looking on the website the convertibles were all a little too much for what you get. However they offered me an upgrade to a Chrysler Sebring convertible for a little bit extra and a lot less than what I had originally saw on the website. I decided to take it. This would be more like it I would be able to cruise in la style now.

As yet (writing this a day or two later) we have not had the top down yet, it has just been too windy to do so. Hopefully now we are much further south the opportunities will go up. I did not mention it is also a mechanical roof so the top disappears in to the boot of the car which I must get a video of. However with our two big suitcases we cannot have the top down unless the suitcases are strapped in on the back seats.

We stopped for a spot of lunch at a small village called half moon bay just on the coast after which heading further south we decided to pull into Santa Cruz for the night, Santa Cruz being just about an hour or so south of San Francisco. There we stayed at a best western hotel which was 20mins from the main wharf area and the sea. Walking down that evening we had a very good seafood meal on the end of the pier at a small restaurant down there called Dolphins.