LA to Pismo Beach

I had a good flight to LA.  I was quite amazed I made it.  Travelling by myself I thought I would be sure to forget something, or fill out something wrong.  But everything went really well.
Thanks to Jo my suitcase only weighted 16.5kg, and I'm sure I've got enought clothes.
It took about an hour to get through USA immigration, the queue was huge!  Richard was really late picking me up, and I had been doing really well, but as soon as I saw him the tears welled up.  I'm not too sure why really, just please to see him and relief that I wasn't going to spend the rest of my life outside the LAX.
Then we picked up our rental car - a Mustang convertable! (Pictures tomorrow.) And drove up to Pismo Beach, which took about 4 hours.  The traffic was really heavy in places, but it kept flowing okay. 
The GPS took us straight to our motel, and we headed down to the beach just in time to see the sunset.  There was a boardwalk, but we didn't go down to the sand.  Had a lovely fish and shrimp meals for dinner.

I thought these only existed on the Simpsons!

Beautiful sunset.  Pismo seems like a cross between Waihi, Whangamata and Whitianga.  There were heaps of people around and lots of surf shops and restaurants right by the beach.