We started slowly making our way up the California Coast and made it as far as Huntington Beach, which is just south of Los Angeles.

We stayed at the Waterfront RV Park, which is basically a large black topped parking lot with hookups and lines for spaces, and we loved it! All we had to do was walk across Route 1 to get to Huntington Beach State Park. From there it’s a easy short walk to the fun part of town with restaurants and shopping. Our favorite meal there was chicken tikka masala at Indarra.

Huntington Beach’s nickname is Surf City, we could see why from all the surfers that we saw! They even had a surfing contest going on one day!

We took a drive one day down to Balboa Island. They have a very small shopping area with some cute stores – but who knew … this is the original home of the Chocolate Covered Frozen Banana?!?! So of course, we had to stop and get one – in full disclosure though … ours was covered with peanut butter – YUM!!

Huntington Beach is not far from Anaheim CA, which is where Disneyland is located and hey, ya gotta go see the original don’t ya? So we spent a nice day visiting the park and checking out the newest Star Wars addition. To be honest, it was fun to see the original but one has to admit that Disney World in Orlando is a far better park with much more to offer.