Time to leave Santa Barbara and get back to Phoenix, Arizona. The Party is over; everyone is going home. As I was late heading over here, so we are late getting out.

Cooling off in the middle of the day and brushing up on wave-riding skills, this young woman makes her way into the surf with a boogie board in hand. Up and down the coast, rain or shine, hot or cold, you will almost always see someone out in the surf bobbing up and down, looking for the perfect wave.

It was nearly 2:00 p.m. when we left, but that’s ok. Had we left any earlier, we wouldn’t have experienced the excitement of nearly being run off the road by a semi just 15 miles from home in the middle of the night. Bad luck for the guy behind us, who ended up in a ditch because of this sleepy truck driver. Police were on this guy in minutes, but it took another half an hour before our racing hearts calmed down – ah, cheap thrills.