Day 18 - Santa Monica, CA to Sequoia National Park, CA

Now that Route 66 was over, the plan was to start in Venice Beach and go up along the Pacific Coast to San Francisco... It was supposed to be a long, but doable trip... Of course we changed plans in the middle and ended in Sequoia National Park, but let's start from the beginning...

First stop, Venice and Venice beach where someone decided to construct a town that would resemble Italy's Venice, including the canals...

Canals in Venice

At the entrance to the beach

Venice Beach

Venice Beach

Moving up, we stopped in Malibu:

Not very interesting

And in Santa Barbara:

The beach

View from the beach

A street in Santa Barbara

And in Santa Barbara we decided that instead of going up to San Francisco we should go and see the Giant Sequoias in Sequoia National Park...
As we were already full of seeing the sea and missing the desert (not really), we went back into the desert: