californication

Ever since my days glued to the TV watching episodes of The OC i've had a quiet addiction to the California culture (and those cute little lifeguard towers). So when it came to planning the long awaited trip to Mexico it seemed silly not to include the Golden State in the itinerary too.

Unfortunately time meant we had to stick to Southern California (San Fran i'll get to you one day) and while LA wasn't exactly how I pictured it, strangely it wasn't disappointing either. Our road trip down the Pacific Coast Highway through Newport, Laguna and Huntington Beach was the epitome of the American surf lifestyle and whilst absorbing the alternative culture of Santa Monica and Venice Beach (or maybe it was the absorbing of something else in the air) I just had to mark the end of the trip with some new ink.