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A friend in L.A. needs help fin­ding a spe­cial sur­prise geta­way for her boyfriend’s birth­day this wee­kend:

well, it’s his birth­day this fri­day, i’m arran­ging a sur­prise trip away…thinking of coas­tal bits or desert or somewhere fun or northern calif. again (we did the PCH drive up to big sur last year which never fails)…any thoughts? anyone you know recomm roman­tic hotel/house swap or just somewhere/someone nice to pop into for a bite, view to breathe in… if we go away????
not got long to spring the cre­dit card or ring someone and sort this out…pehaps you have a good pal/special place/old parcel/stolen sculp­ture you pro­mi­sed to have delivered…but you’d share with me this thought (on pain of death i don’t spoil it for you?!!!)
Mustn’t be more than 3 – 4 hours drive from los ange­les, if i blind­fold us, early on fri­day mor­ning and hit the ‘gas’ before the horri­ble traffic…

Any­body know a place? Please leave any sug­ges­tions in the com­ments, or if you know someone who might have a good idea, please for­ward this page along to them. Thanks.
[E-Bay Update: The “Puppy” print is now bid­ding at $41.00. Very cool.]

9 Responses to “los angeles getaway”

1. Katherine Tyrrell says:

   October 4, 2006 at 12:25 PM

   If you do drive north, you could try stop­ping off in San Luis Obispo and get­ting break­fast in the Big Sky cafe. I came out to the west coast recently and did the PCH drive from north to south and had the best break­fast of my whole trip there. See my tra­vel sketch­book blog for the sketch I did while eating break­fast http://travelsketch.blogspot.com/2006/09/saturday-29th-july-best-breakfast-of.html. You might also get a few ideas for other pla­ces you could drive too if you read the entries for my whole trip sum­ma­ri­sed here http://travelsketch.blogspot.com/2006/07/sketching-in-southwestern-states-of.html
2. Kathy Sierra says:

   October 4, 2006 at 4:23 PM

   Cam­bria Pines Lodge:
   http://www.cambriapineslodge.com/
   Or just about any of the other Cam­bria Inns. It feels like you are SO far from L.A., and one of the first pla­ces where the forest and ocean start to meet.
   Another option is to take the Coast Star­light train from LA (LA or Van Nuys sta­tions) up to San Luis Obispo, and when you get off you can either stay in SLO or take a shuttle up to Los Osos / Bay­wood (beau­ti­ful back bay area). From Los Osos, you can get to the Mon­tana de Oro state park which is SPECTACULAR and it’s no pro­blem fin­ding an entire beach area to your­self.
   The train is nice because your little vaca­tion starts the ins­tant you board so you don’t have to drive through LA. And that train spends a lot of time lite­rally *right on* the ocean.
   Have fun!
3. Mikael says:

   October 4, 2006 at 5:34 PM

   The Madonna Inn is pro­bably boo­ked up this wee­kend (I unders­tand you need to make reser­va­tions very early), but there are seve­ral nice hotels in San Luis Obispo. Qua­lity Sui­tes or Apple Farm are also nice pla­ces to stay and are more likely to have rooms on short notice.
   I like to take peo­ple to the Big Sky Cafe (Broad St. and Higuera) in down­town SLO or to the Edna Valley winery (my favo­rite label, Sorry Hugh, I’ve never had a chance to try Stormhoek). If you do come to SLO, have a mar­tini at Giuseppe’s.
   The train is nice too, but it’s slow, and there’s only one train per day that comes all the way to SLO (the rest stop at Santa Bar­bara). Also, Union Paci­fic owns the track and have been known to delay Amtrak seve­ral hours to let some freight through, but that hasn’t hap­pe­ned to me yet.
4. cat says:

   October 4, 2006 at 7:55 PM

   Sequoias are beau­ti­ful. 4 hours north of LA. Dont have spe­ci­fic lod­ging recs because I always camp…
5. Paul Cooper says:

   October 4, 2006 at 10:12 PM

   Last year my wife, daugh­ter and I did a little tour of Northern Cali­for­nia — we espe­cially liked Paso Robles (which is, I think, a cou­ple of hours from LA). We sta­yed at the Paso Robles Inn, the room was nice — we could have upgra­ded to a room with spa, but we were only sta­ying the night and didn’t seem worth it as the pool was pretty good. It’s a nice neat little town with plenty of inte­res­ting res­tau­rants and also a fair­ground. It’s close to enough to Hearst Castle which although it’s quite tou­risty is quite roman­tic, and San Simeon beach which I liked. The stuff I blog­ged about it at the time is here http://www.devel.co.uk/?pg=10
   Cam­bria that Kathy men­tio­ned is a nice small, very tou­risty coas­tal town even clo­ser to Hearst Castle — my thoughts of it are somewhat clou­ded as I got food poi­so­ning from a res­tau­rant there. Just do a bit of inves­ti­ga­ting if you’re sta­ying there as there were alot of slightly out of town Motel 6 type pla­ces — not that there is anything wrong with them, we sta­yed at one, but not what I’d call roman­tic.
   Have fun!
6. Roderick says:

   October 4, 2006 at 11:45 PM

   I run a start up we have a mas­sive selec­tion of vaca­tion ren­tal pro­per­ties, so if you are loo­king for a house to have your roman­tic wee­kend let me know. I am sure I can help you get a kick ass place.
   R.
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   October 30, 2006 at 8:30 PM

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