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Agree. I've been to north county at least a half dozen times and basically surf somewhere between as far south as Pacific Beach or as far north as San Clemente. Also Santa Cruz a few times. I clearly don't even know the back road/travel hacks.

Traffic is worse in Delmarva for much of the time between Memorial Day and Late September than on any of those trips to CA. It's real simple to see why too...CA invested in transportation infrastructure, mid Atlantic states dont.

With that said, once you get further north, and start trying to surf around Huntington, Newport Beach, LA County, forget it. WAYYY worse.

 

Porno?

 

I'll always be glad that I had at least one solid year in Encinitas(early 2000's), I was younger and single and able to pull it off. Lived in a tiny one room studio across from the moonlight hotel, great view of moonlight beach from the deck, mostly a cool younger crowd in the apartments.
Quality of life, incredible. Consistent swell, always an intense volleyball game at the courts, Del Mar fairgrounds down the road with free concerts every weekend in the summer, heck weekend shows at the beach pavilion.
Just couldn't find that decent paying job. The trades were overrun with skilled labor from south of the border, non union heavy equipment jobs were starting in the low teens. I even joined the union and paid dues for over 5 months with no work.
Finally started driving a bobtail for my cuz's trucking company. I'd have to drive from Encinitas to Riverside to start my day, load the truck with furniture, and deliver to furniture companies up the coast all the way to San Francisco, stopping at warehouses along the way to reload and sleeping at horrible trucker motels rife with meth and prostitutes. A run could take over a week easy, very stressful before the time of google maps, (would use rand McNally maps and the necessary page would always be ripped the f@#k out).
Saw a lot of California, but couldn't stop to enjoy it, was tired all the time when I wasn't working, started getting out of shape driving all the time, it sucked.
My old boss from the ec kept calling hoping Id come back, made an offer, and that was the end of that. Didn't work the last month and a half in Encinitas, enjoyed every second.

My folks moved to Cali in the mid nineties (Fallbrook) so I had been a lot before and after Encinitas, but living right there, coastal, was great.
California Uber Alles

 

Surfing Swamis every day for a year would make me one happy surfer

 

Yeah, you might get 75 waves that year.

 

haha...I'm a goofy footer and willing to go left there, and surf it when it's small. Its a Goood left off into that boneyard. I've never had trouble getting waves there except one session when it was glassy overhead, and perfect.

 

Yeah, I've stood there at the guard stand and watched that left peel off empty wave after wave. I keep telling myself that I need to go surf there but I've become a creature of habit.

 

I got swamis uncrowded a few times literally planning tactical strikes, and it was fun, but made the mistake of paddling out when it was great and busy, got yelled at and vibed, lol, it is what it is.
My experience with trestles is the same. Sometimes if the wind was slightly, and I mean slightly, onshore it wasn't a zoo, and still had fun waves.
There is a lot of coastline there, I could walk down the beach and find fun waves heading towards Leaucadia or the other way before swamis without any hassle.
With an upcoming snowstorm here it's nice to remember.

 

I go to Grandview occasionally. I always have a good time there and then forget about it and go back to the Powerplant.

 

I was only ever there once, and it was the same for me. Even a sub-standard day there is good. Lotta talent in the water, too.

 

You are always going backside in your surfing pix.

Do you even left lol?

 

I agree! Mo Frontside Mo Betta. A rarity from OC last year.