Still Catching Up - Our Stay at Camp Pendleton (on the beach 😁)

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Thanks to my favorite sister-in-law and brother-in-law, we had an opportunity for an amazing stay at the Del Mar Beach famcamp at Marine Corp Base Camp Pendleton in southern California. We can't thank Julie and Steve enough for making this happen for us.

This was our view every day. Our campsite was literally on the beach. I was told they put some kind of mesh under the sand so you can drive on it and not get stuck. But as far as we could see it all looked like soft, white sandy beach 😁

Directly in front of our rig was a huge fire pit.

 Almost every afternoon we cranked up a fire, grabbed our wine and sat by the fire to watch the sunset. Does it get any better? 

 

Every day we would take a beack walk. At low tide there was a wide, firm, clean beach where we could walk for miles... and we did. I think we averaged about 5 miles each walk. We didn't spot any whales, but it is not uncommon to see them here. 

Just down the beach from us was a beach side bistro, Ramon's Mexican BBQ with the biggest, most incredible breakfast tacos I have ever seen. 

For a twist they put french fries in them which may sound strange, but they were really good. First time we visited I made the mistake of ordering 2. Unfortunately I failed to complete my mission.☹️

On our last night we went into Solana Beach to a place called The Belly Up Tavern. This is a very cool place that has a vibe like Austin or Key West. We had a great dinner at the Wild Note Cafe and then watched a local band, the Clay Colton Band. They were only the opening act but totally rocked the place with songs from The Almond Brothers, CSNY and the Eagles. They were amazing! I would have paid just to see them, but there was more.

The main act was a Fleetwood Mac tribute band called Tusk. We had them at Victoria Palms but I was down sick that night and didn't get to see them. They were incredible!

We actually stayed up past midnight rocking to this band. They really put on a show!

This was an incredible stay for us from beginning to end. And as I said, we are incredibly grateful to Julie and Steve for setting it up and sponsoring our entry to the base.

That's it for this post. Next up is the first part of our stay in the Q hanging with the Next Exit crew.

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