Another cute seaside town on our way up the California coast. We stayed at the Santa Barbara Sunrise RV Park, a nice, very small, family owned park. It is right off of Route 1 so there is a fair amount of noise from the highway but not enough to bother us inside our rig.

Santa Barbara has a really nice beach area and a wharf with a few restaurants all within walking distance of the RV park. Sadly, it was too cold to spend any real time on the beach. But we did have dinner one night at Longboard’s Grill on Stearns Wharf. The food was good and the view was great.

Most of the restaurants and shops are in the middle of town, which isn’t near the ocean. We spent a couple of evenings there and got a great pasta dinner at Pascucci’s, an Italian restaurant (well, Candi’s was great! Mike’s was just okay😒). We did get a REALLY good pizza at another Italian restaurant, Olio Pizzeria, It had the cutest little ‘back alley’ outside seating area! After eating at two Italian restaurants, we are humming Billy Joel – bottle of red, bottle of white. Although for us, both bottles were white!

We also took a day trip to Solvang, a town known for its Danish style architecture. A friend of ours said if we went up there we had to try Paula’s Pancake House, thanks Lucinda, good advice! After that huge breakfast it was nice to spend some time exploring the town.

Santa Barbara gave us a lot to hum about, everywhere we looked we found music references! From Billy Joel to the Beatles to the Eagles!