Santa Barbara Travel Blogs

My Santa Barbara experience lasted for about two and a half days. I swam next to a sea lion. Not in a romantic Flipper-kind-of-way. He didn’t really give a shit (or she, but I don’t think so, because of the beard). Mr. Sea Lion just popped up every 5 minutes took some air in, and before diving …

We didn't have any real plans other than a sunset cruise - but the day was so gray and sad we decided to forego the cruise and do some shopping and maybe more wine tasting.  Despite having had one breakfast already, we decided to have 2nd breakfast at Rudy's Cafe - and it was a pleasant surpri…

Less than one week left. Now, every morning when I wake up, I think, “This is my last (insert day of week) here”. And then I cry. Well, not really about the tears, but it could happen. There really isn’t one single bone in my body that wants to leave this place. I went to Red Rock last wee…

Today was fairly exciting. I went for a walk around Galita, the small town that I'm actually in (near Santa Barbara). I met up with some local fraternity guys and they drove me around and we got something to eat. We stopped into a Mexican restaurant called Super Cuca's and I had a "Super Burrito…

Today a special day. Up to Los Angeles. But that is a day drive. We realise know how big America is. Big, great and beautiful. In the morning we left Santa Maria, but it is a waste to spend the entire day in the bus. There is so much to see. And why not the city of Santa Barbara. It is a more commo…

I drove to Santa Barbara from San Juan Capistrano, to stay in a little motel and to enjoy the beautiful beach atmosphere. I only stayed two nights and spent my days on the beach relaxing and soaking up the sun. My nights I tried out a couple of different restaurants, my favourite was a one on the p…

I was now in my mum's home town, visiting friends and expolring the sights for the first time on my own.The weather was perfect and my small beachside house provided amazing views for me to wake up to each morning.I took the shuttle along the waterfron each day into the city center, a great way to …

I was having a lot of trouble sleeping because the heater was soooo hot.  Fortunately, Sybil also wakes up pretty early so I had someone to talk to (much to Az’s chagrin).  To give Az some quiet sleeping time, Sybil and I decided to take a walk around town in the freezing cold and take …

OK, so after few days in L.A, I get into a car and start going up the coast. Just to get the feeling of a road trip over here in the states. I know, it's only few hours but it was nice and now I know for sure that I would like to go back one day and do a long road trip one day, just going around. …

For one year, I lived in Santa Barbara, California-also known as "Paradise", as the locals say. It WAS quite beautiful. Sometimes I quite miss it. One has yearly access to great beaches and sunshine! Nicht schlect! I would recommend Santa Barbara to anyone passing through Southern Cali-it's roughly 100 miles north of Los Angeles, and it offers some cozy restaurants, hoppin' bars, laid-back friendly people, and last, but not least...sunny beaches!

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwthat's the new city i felt in love with.we arrived at midnight in Santa Barbara, and while we were looking for a motel, we drove through the city.it was a thursday night, and on the main street, ALL the bar & clubs were packed. and there were SOOOO MANYYYYYbeaut…

the day began 7:30am on the road on the 101 with my friend. no congestion which allowed me to smoothly drive on the freeway without any irritating stop and go scenarios. 2 hours later we arrived in the Santa Barbara county line. We continued on the 101 and hopped into the smaller highways 154 and 2…

We headed off to Santa Barbara to see the world's largest fig tree, the beach and the Santa Barbara Mission. We did not know that the missions along the Pacific Coast were an attempt by the government of Spain and the Roman Catholic Church to thwart settlement from the north by the Russians. A walk…

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