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This Saturday evening we arrived at Jalama Beach campground with 5 carloads of friends, sausages, canned beans, guitars, and a gigantic 8-person tent. The beach is beautifully secluded, and most of our camper neighbors looked like they had been surfing all day. We, on the other hand, set straight to work setting up the gigantic flapping tent, starting a fire, and asking all our neighbors if we could share their parking spots. I'm not sure if we left such a good impression. And the flapping tent, well, pretty much flapped all night long. But a sublime sunset followed by a warm morning, paired with the fun of camping with 13 friends (and a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday sung to our dear Thais), made for quite a lovely weekend. And now that I'm officially Californian (I got a license, of course), it made me love "my" state all the more...haha : )