Our first trip out we made a very big day of it. From our base in San Clemente, the drive up to Los Angeles can be well over an hour (if you have no traffic issues) so we knew we would likely not make a lot of trips up to the city. We tried, when possible, to combine a number of stops into a trip north. We went up to Malibu and had brunch at the Malibu Pier. While eating and drinking our lattes (you should know we must have our coffees and lattes every day – full list of our coffee shop stops in Southern California) we watched all of the surfers to the north of the pier. This was a very popular surfing spot. In fact, all the way up along the Pacific Coast Highway we saw tons of people parking and surfing. After enjoying the stop, we then headed a little further up the PCH to Point Dume. We hiked up to the top of the point where you have an unparalleled 270-degree view of the coast in this area.
