California - Oceanside

While Kathy and Bruce went to the zoo, George and I bought a "Coaster" ticket and caught it at the Oldtown terminal. This train took us up the coast towards Los Angeles and the last stop was Oceanside. We got of the train there and walked out on to the pier.

George walking across the road to the pier

It was a very clean but rather sterile place. It had only really been built up in the last 30 years and didn't have much atmosphere but we watched the surfers

 and the fishermen, both human and avian.

We took the train back down the coast and got off at the next community South, Encinadas. This had a nice, busy, little downtown and bluffs overlooking the beach and the, ever present, surfers. We watched the sun go down into the ocean.

When Bruce had lived in San Diego, he lived in Ocean Beach, otherwise known as OB, not Oceanside. We went and checked out one of his haunts, a restaurant that had been featured on the Best Diners in the US TV show, Hoodads. We had burgers and huge plates of onion rings.

Hoodads walls are covered with license plates and other paraphernalia.