One California Day

For our final day in LA, we decided to rent pushbikes and cruise the touristy boardwalk. We picked up our bikes at Venice and rode up to Santa Monica Pier. On the way back, we stopped for lunch at Dogtown Coffee at 2003 Main Street. Back in the day, this place was home to the Zephyr Surf Shop and the Dogtown skate crew. After lunch, the girls strolled along Abbott Kinney for a final time while Ollie and I again gorged on super-fresh prawn and beef tacos from our local street vending truck. We then drove down to check out Tyler Surfboards in El Segundo. We had originally seen Tyler on the One California Day surf video which had in some way inspired our Californian road-trip. The shop was located miles from anywhere, in a small industrial estate, south of LAX. Fortunately, the shop was staffed by a cool young guy named Josh who made us feel welcome and showed us around. Later in the afternoon, we met up with Ando and Jude at the Venice Beach Wine Bar on Rose Street. They are due to head back to Australia tomorrow while we head north to San Francisco. We all chilled out for a while during happy hour, sharing stories, before heading on our separate ways.