5/1 - Into LA and Venice Beach

Friday, May 1– The early sunset also meant it didn't get light til later. It was almost 9am when we emerged from out shaded den. I had already gotten up around 7 to let Dazey out, she had gone on a couple adventures already and had come back to lay down again when we finally got moving.

I went down to the creek and washed myself in the frigid water while Tyne Boiled water and washed her hair out of pots. We asked a car going by if you could get out by going down river, and to our surprise, he said that it became a paved road just a quarter mile down. We headed that way and within an hour we were coming into Palmdale and the north side of Las Angelos. Another 50 miles through the mountains and we were in the heart of it. Traffic was terrible, people were rude, and I had no idea where I was going. We slowly made our way to the beach.

We stopped first at the beach in Santa Monica. I was not in a good mood at all, I already wanted to get out of the madness of the city. There was no where to park or camp, Dazey wasn't allowed on the beach, and I had no idea what we were really doing.

We continued down the coast til we arrived at Venice Beach. I just wanted to lay down in the car and get my stress level down a little, so Tyne went for a walk along the boardwalk to check it out. After 15 minutes, I was calmed down again, and I called her to see if we could meet. We walked along the boardwalk and scoped all the people selling and found out that we should be ok to sell there the next morning.

A couple guys with a sign saying, "Please donate to the marijuana fund" gave us a good recommendation on finding legal parking as that was a big problem here. Just a few blocks from the beach we found our parking spot and settled down for a noisy night in the van.

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