Ventura coast camping (# 0515)

Something that just doesn’t fit with my notion of relaxing – being parked bumper-to-bumper in a string of RV’s (caravans) and trailers, with no shade, surrounded by asphalt, and a major thoroughfare (US 101) 200’ away (out of picture, to the right of me).

I’m probably being way too prejudiced, but relaxing to me is about getting either relatively close to nature, or discovering a new community. This feels too much like living in a car park to me.

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What about the pandemic? This does look pretty safe in terms of the pandemic distancing standards but I, admittedly, had hopes early on that the environmental issues brought up by the pandemic would somehow encourage a large scale rethinking of our relationships with our environment and with others. True, though, considering our current Trumpian culture, that was a naive expectation.


Oh, and one last thing for some of my UK/EU friends – yes, campers in the U.S. seem to have an exorbitant need to fly the U.S. flag….

Picture locations are only approximate, could be off by as much as a mile.