Coffee during our Central Coast Road Trip - Red Kettle Coffee House, Cayucos Coffee, Luna Coffee Bar, Scout Coffee & Lucky Llama

It's been about three weeks since our trip to the Central Coast...

we debated whether to do it or not, but wanderlust won out...

Carpinteria Day 3 - Return to Lucky Llama Coffee House + the Wardholme Pine

As is our custom during our trip...

we left pretty early to get a headstart, but first, we had to have our coffeee...

Carpinteria Day 2 - Casitas pier, Carpinteria Seal Sanctuary, Tar Pits Park + dinner at Sushi Teri

It was a short drive back to the bluffs area,

where we crossed the tracks...

Carpinteria Day 2 - 8th Street Bridge

We saw a brief mention of this bridge on a "sights to see flyer" somewhere in town...

and I'm a sucker for bridges, so...

Island Brewing Company, Farmer's Market, Robitaille's + Carpinteria Valley Museum of History

Located near the train tracks is a brewery...

which is one of three in Carpinteria...

Lunch @ Tacos don Roge + dessert from Rainbow Ice Cream

What we really loved about Carpinteria was how close everything was to each other.

You can pretty much walk everywhere here...

Carpinteria Day 2 - The Franklin Trail

We were up pretty damn early...

to make our way to a formerly defunct trail that had recently reopened after four decades...

Sunset @ Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve

We were on the outer edges of this very preserve earlier this afternoon...

and wanted to catch the few remaining rays of light.

Lunch @ Rincon Brewery, Carpinteria

There were three breweries in Carp...

During the course of our stay, we managed to do two of them...

Carpinteria Summer 2017

We were finally back in Carp...

having been there the previous year...

Carpinteria Road Trip - Day 3 Highlights

All good things come to an end.

Free breakfast from our hotel was followed by coffee named after a South American camelid...

Carpinteria Road Trip - Day 2 Highlights

We began the morning at a nearby trail...

Their local high school had an awesome 3D head of their mascot...

Carpinteria Road Trip - Day 1 Highlights

It was still dark the morning we headed out to Carpinteria...

First stop was, as usual, the Starbucks on Red Hill Dr. in Tustin. Gone is the cigar store and replaced by a poke place...poke is everywhere now it seems...

Hugo's Restaurant

Over on Casitas Pass Road, one of the main streets, is Shepard Place Shops.

There are a variety of retail shops and businesses here and also across the street.

Our lunch spot for this day would be the one in the corner, Hugo's...

Scenes from Carpinteria

Here's a few photos from our quick visit to Carpinteria...

during our recent Summer Road Trip...

Downtown Carpinteria is quite walkable and there is quite a bit of street parking...

Robitaille's Fine Candies + return to Carpinteria State Beach

Earlier we were curious about Robitaille's Fine Candies...

Sadly, it was closed. Several young boys on skateboards were also bummed out. We ended up coming a little later after having had pastries across the street at Reynaldo's Bakery.

Every town has to have a candy shop and Carpinteria was no exception...

Reynaldo's Bakery

As we walked along Linden Avenue, we passed by many mom and pop shops and eateries.

Across the street was the local Mexican panaderia, Reynaldo's Bakery.

We'd already eaten breakfast, but walked inside anyways...

Lucky Llama Coffee House

Beyond the shadow of the world's tallest Torrey Pine tree was our coffee destination for the morning...

at the awesomely named Lucky Llama Coffee House...

It was already pretty hot and I knew that I wanted a cold brew...

Summer Road Trip 2016 - Day 4: Santa Barbara's Moreton Bay Fig Tree & Carpinteria's World's largest Torrey Pine

Before leaving Santa Barbara, we made a quick stop to see the famed Moreton Bay Fig Tree...

While San Diego boasts its own Moreton Bay Fig tree (the Tallest one actually, next to the SD Museum of Natural History; over 80 feet high)...

The Spot + Carpinteria State Beach

From Camarillo to Carpinteria...

to a place I had bookmarked but hadn't planned on going to until later in our trip.  We meant to go to the beach but balked when we found out the beach parking fee was $10. The nice lady at the booth told us we could exit the lot and park along Linden Street for free...