Planning a Trip

I am planning a trip with my daughter to California. She is 16 years old and I have noticed that we seem to be drifting apart. I guess it is a fact of life that I am NOT hip. I understand her natural inclination to want to be with friends and other people. I am sort of OK with that, BUT, I certainly dont want to be irrelevent. I thought it would be really neat if she and I could go on a vacation together. This may be my last opportunity..who knows.

Freinds of mine used to store their trailer at my place. They pull the trailer to California for 2 months every year. They are camped right on the ocean near Encintas. That is about half way between LA and SanDiego..I think. Deb and I are going to send down our tent, air mattress and sleeping bags with them when they leave. We will fly into LAX or SD and they will pick us up at the airport.

We want to do a Hollywood tour. My son Dylan and I tried a few years back but found the people to be rude and unhelpful. Truth is, we took the forst opportunity to "get outta Dodge". On the trip back we decided to try again with LA. Again, we found it quite difficult and ended up just waiting at the airport for 6 hours rather than spend another second in LA.

So what makes me think it will be different this time? My friend Patti lived there for 14 years. They hava a car and they know their way around. We shall go roller blading in Venice. We shall go sit on the lifeguard stand that we saw on the OC. We shall go and see some fancy ass mansions. We shall even go to DisneyLand. I am very excited...oh ya..and we shall go to the SantaMonica pier, try to find Hotel California and do a day trip down to Tijuana Mexico.

If anyone has any suggestions on where we should go or see or do, please feel free to give me your input.

cheers