It has been a while since I have posted and, therefore, it has been a while since we visited the San Clemente State Beach.  It was during the first weekend of February.  It was with the California group from AirForums, the rallies are discussed in this thread.

We got there on Thursday and stayed in the full hookup loop, others were in the no hookup sites.  The weather was not too bad during the day but it did get cold at night.  We did the tourist thing on Saturday and went to the San Juan Capistrano Mission.  It was one of the first times that we had been to a mission without a child’s project riding upon a visit.

The saturday night pot luck was fun.  The weather was managable with the bonfire.  We had it at a campsite that was on a plateau overlooking the ocean and sunset.

After leaving San Clemente we took an extra day and went to Bolsa Chica State Beach.  They have a policy of not allowing you into the spots until 2pm.  They do enforce this.  So, since we were there early, we ate some lunch until we would could go in.  Essentially it is a parking lot(s) with hookups.  We had a spot that backed up to the beach.  We could see the Catalinas and oil rigs from our back window

The primary reason to extend the stay was to visit with my birthfather who lives nearby.

All in all it was a fun trip but it is pretty exciting driving around the LA basin with the trailer.