day 76: oceanside to pacific beach

>> Tuesday, January 5, 2010

we have decided the three places that we are considering for relocation are: wilmington north carolina, charleston south carolina and san diego.  with that being said we are focusing a bit more time and energy in seeing san diego thoroughly.

we tried to camp in northern san diego at san elijo state beach, but the reservation process and rules for the state beaches are jacked up.  we were not able to find reasonable accommodations so we back to a place we have previously visited in pacific beach called campland on the bay.

i got in two good sessions at tourmaline surf beach before the pacific went flat. 

Posted by andrew at 12:22 PM
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3 comments:

Anonymous January 5, 2010 at 11:54 PM  

did you check out newport beach and/or laguna? preeeeeeetty close to irvine... where we have an office...i'm just saying...could be a great place to be...little less conservative than san diego... but still perfect...with an office nearby...just putting it out there...you might really love it... and one of our old mbna co-workers still lives there... and he's a big surfer and very cool... you could have a new surf buddie... and there's on office... :)
kisses. miss you!
love, jody

Coleen January 6, 2010 at 10:04 AM  

Charleston, Charleston, Charleston,
Charleston, Charleston, Charleston,
Charleston, Charleston, Charleston,
Charleston, Charleston, Charleston,
Charleston, Charleston, Charleston,
Charleston, Charleston, Charleston,
Charleston, Charleston, Charleston,
Charleston, Charleston, Charleston,
Charleston, Charleston, Charleston,
Charleston, Charleston, Charleston,
Charleston, Charleston, Charleston.

Kristen January 6, 2010 at 12:20 PM  

We actually stayed in Newport Beach for a few days and loved it!

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my wife and i have had a fairly mundane life so far. we live in northern delaware where we met, fell in love, bought a house and got married. we enjoy traveling, camping, surfing and eating well and we do not have any children. we are in our mid-thirties and have average careers, not glamorous or high paying, but consistent none the less. as time passes day to day in our mundane life there has been something growing stronger inside of us for years. that something is the need to break out of our slumber and live life to the fullest. we want to see the world and find a place by the edge of the sea to call home and open our own business. we keep revisiting this idea, reinventing the plan, but never following through. last december we got serious... we wrote down goals, step by step, to move towards achieving our dreams. we created a budget and decided we could feasible travel in our pop-up camper for 3 months exploring the coast in search for the place we wanted to live. we saved money for traveling, we got our house appraised, we worked on curb appeal & we sold cumbersome unessential possessions. last big step was to sell our house and our target was September. we finally got our house on the market on friday, september 25. we had
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