{California Trip 2013 | Big Sur, Palm Springs, CA Area | Personal}

The beginning of June I got to go visit a friend {Katherine of www.katherinealison.com } in California for a week, and we packed everything possible into that week, including navigating both LA and San Fran traffic, 25+ hours in the car, road tripping up the coast, four days of camping, picture taking, a day at beach, hiking a mountain, the Palm Springs tram way, an afternoon in San Francisco, and topping it off with shooting a wedding the day before I flew out. It was crazy fun! Our travels together are always pretty great, and we end up exhausted but with a lot of good memories and full memory cards ;)

Happy Saturday, ya’ll! 

 Santa Barbara Mission – and some pretty rad chalk art

 Road trip up Hwy 1

 Elephant Seal Beach {want to hear what this sounded like??? http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/523/files/eseal3.au}

 On the right is the beach of the campground we stayed at the first night

 View from our campsite on one side

 View on the other side…

 Limekiln State Park Waterfalls

 Camping necessities 

 Mt. Manual hike

 The coast between Big Sur and Monterey

 Monterey Bay

 San Francisco

 Fishermans Wharf/Pier 39

 Pier 39 and Alcatraz

 Pier 39

 View from the top of Mount San Jancito in Palm Springs 8500 feet