Cali Road Trip January 2026

18-20 January

Took a quick trip to Solvang and hit a few things on the way there and back 🙂

Day 1

Los Encinos State Historic Park
Got to see the forges and blacksmithing going
during the 2 hours a month they are open! I didn’t even know!
Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park
Never found my way to the “historic” section of the park but I did find some beautiful sky 🙂
Santa Monica Mountains NRA…quite a view!
Topanga State Park
Topanga Beach

Camped at Cachuma Lake

Nice thing to wake up to 🙂
Chillin with the sunrise
Solvang!!
Visited the lutheran church there
They have a statue of the Christus (done by a Danish sculptor and adopted in many places in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
I can read that! I’m learning Danish since I would really like to go live in Denmark.
Love the Hans Christian Andersen park
and the cemetery
Elverhov museum
Fun seeing their alphabet now that I’m learning the language
Los Osos Oaks State Reserve
Cambria State Memorial Park
Limekiln State Park
So many incredible views!
A very nice couple offered to take a picture of me enjoying the sunset
Photos don’t do it justice obviously, but the stars were incredible that night camping at Julia Pfieffer Burns State Park

Day 3

Started with some day sights at Julia Pfeiffer
Highway 1 was finally reopened (4 days before this trip!) after the epic landslide and being closed for a year and a half
…but there were still some things closed here.
The hike down to McWay Falls for example…
…can’t wait to get down there!
Point Sur Lightstation…
…wasn’t there during any of the tour times so an optical zoom is the best I’m going to get for now haha
Point Lobos State Natural Reserve
Wasn’t going to get wet. The ocean had alternate plans 🙂
Also still closed
Carmel River State Beach
Asilomar State Beach
Zmudowski State Beach

Now I can go back to Life on the Land at a Disney Park for a while 🙂