Malibu on a Whim
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We headed out today toward Santa Monica, but decided to continue down the Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu. PCH allowed us to check out the great houses along Malibu. We stopped at the tourism building, which apparently doubles for a little league center. Michael Landon is what they named the tourism building. It was extremely windy at Malibu and that made it hard for us to actually close our car doors! The wind was pulling them open as we really struggled to close our car doors. We had our backs to the wind as we walked to the building, that was a struggle too. We no longer had a hard time imagining why the winds are devastating when there are fires here. We could tell that this building was lucky to be saved from a previous fire, there were burnt bushes on the coast side, only about a meter away.
As we walked around Malibu, we could see where the fire had been. The place we stopped for lunch, the palms outside were scorched! The fire came so close to PCH that many backs of buildings still show fire and smoke damage. We remembered hearing on the news about a multi-million dollar home, built like a castle, and was sold just before the fire, burnt down. We’re pretty sure we saw that the only thing standing was the stone chimney.
We spent the entire day at Malibu, looking at the wonderful homes, ones that weren’t in the fire, and hanging around the beach that we decided to see if there was a room available here, we walked right up to the first hotel in Malibu we came across and booked a room for the night. The accommodations were fabulous and for not having any reservations, the price for being beach-side wasn’t so bad. We ended up watching the sunset out on our hotel rooms balcony. It was a nice end to an interesting day.
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