The Great American Surf Road Trip: California’s Best Surf Breaks and Campsites Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Emilie Hawtin1/17Fresh off the plane, fresh out of the water at Zuma Beach.
Photo: Courtesy of Emilie Hawtin2/17Waxing my board to party wave with Kassia Meador in Malibu.
3/17Vogue finds us wherever we travel—here, on a vintage ski in Ojai.
Photo: Courtesy of Emilie Hawtin4/17Summer Camp in Ojai has an impressive selection of ceramics, rugs, and vintage California memorabilia.
5/17The Ojai Rancho Inn’s Chief’s Peak bar offers respite from the desert sun. Order anything with mint or cucumber.
6/17The Santa Barbara mud flats surrounding Lake Cachuma—far from a Manhattan city sidewalk.
Photo: Courtesy of Emilie Hawtin7/17At Trim in Santa Barbara, we picked up the surf movies Groove Move, Cosmic Children, and Almost Cut My Hair. We drooled over surfboards by Ryan Lovelace, Corey Munn, and Wegener.
Photo: Courtesy of Emilie Hawtin8/17Emilie and I with Ryan Lovelace at his shaping bay—me having zero chill.
9/17Emilie experiencing car envy. This Chrysler bus was once called the “Second Coming of Ophelia” and followed the Grateful Dead on tour. Now Lovelace uses it to follow swells around the world and calls it the Cosmic Collider.
10/17Deetjen’s is the kind of restaurant you could stay in for the rest of your life. We only managed an hour over a cup of coffee and breakfast.
11/17Just around the bend at the Henry Miller Library, a Big Sur stalwart, picking up some brain food.
Photo: Courtesy of Emilie Hawtin12/17Some wild flowers to thank our Marin host from the Point Reyes Station market, Tobey’s.
Photo: Courtesy of Emilie Hawtin13/17We turned this Jeep Grand Cherokee into a true surf wagon with a single set of surf racks. It made it all the way from Los Angeles to Marin and back on two tanks of gas.
Photo: Courtesy of Emilie Hawtin14/17Following an old friend and tomales up to The Circle of Stones on Mt. Tamalpais for lunch.
15/17A view if there ever was one.
16/17Our open-air canopy at Kassia Meador’s house in Topanga Canyon put our little tent to shame.
Photo: Courtesy of Emilie Hawtin17/17Behold the road.
