Here's what $3,000,000 can buy you...

We decided to take a drive on the coast, with no real plans other than to stop where we felt like it along the way, and try and avoid traffic. We are only about 20 miles from the coast, so we left at about 10:00am, with plans to get back home around 4:00pm.

We started off at Dana Point, where I had found free parking near the big marina there. We had fun looking at all of the boats and seeing how the rich people live!

The Dana Point Marina contains 1,400 boats!

Boats of all sizes, big and small.

It costs between $250 and $1,800 per month to keep your boat here, depending on it's size. I guess it's similar to an RV park. We think we'll stick to rv'ing on the land! I've heard people who own boats say that a boat is just a big hole in the water that you throw money in to!

Some nice ones for sale.

This one would pay close to $1,800 a month to park here.

Lots of boats!

This one is a 2012 model, 75 feet long. Only $3,000,000 to buy a used boat!

We couldn't afford to put fuel in it!

Ruth, Tony, and Helen.

We got back in the car, and saw a road that went up a hill at the point. It offered a beautiful view back at the marina, and there was some conservation land up there too, with a short hiking trail.

The Dana Point Marina.

Looking north from Dana Point.

You can see on the lower right that someone has developed the property along this beach. The homes are still being constructed. There are still three empty lots, so you better act quick if you want one!

It was 1:00pm by the time we finished there, and got back in the car. Our stomachs were telling us that it was time for lunch. We searched out a Thai restaurant that was nearby, but found out it was temporarily closed. Found another one in nearby Laguna Beach, and it was supposed to be open for lunch, but it was closed too. A delivery guy was there, and he said the guy only opens for dinner now. He told us about another Thai restaurant further down the road. 

We arrived there, to find the prices too high for our liking. $13 USD ($17 CAD) per person, plus a tip. For lunch? No thanks.

Couldn't find anything else in the area that was in our price range. However, we had been to Ruby's Shake Shack twice already, and it was only a few miles further up the road. We all agreed that was the place to go for our last meal together, and likely our last meal out for a long time since Ruth and I will be back to our normal schedule tomorrow!

Yummy date shake!

We decided we had all had enough after that, and so we headed back to the campground and arrived around 4:00pm. Just a nice day, with no traffic headaches. We bought some firewood, and decided to have an evening campfire. 

Sherman's campsite.

Ruth had a bag of birdseed and had spread some around. This bird wanted the whole bag!

Park wildlife. He wanted the bird seed too!

Kevin and Helen and our campfire.

Just another nice day. 

Helen and Tony fly out this evening, so it's our last day together. We're just going to hang around the campground for the day, and Ruth is making a big pot roast meal for lunch. Then, we will leave to drive to LAX around 3:00pm this afternoon to drop off Helen and Tony. That'll probably take 2 hours (!), and then another two hours back.

Then tomorrow, Ruth and I will drop off the red Beetle, and head Sherman northeast to the Nevada border. Then, Utah for a week or so!

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