We returned from our trip relaxed and with great photos and headed down to San Onofre area for Sarah’s birthday camp-out. The camping was a little less than rough—freeway within view and a group of skater teens by the bathrooms day and night just hanging out—but the company and food were awesome, and the beach was sandy and sunny and sweet. The water was another story. It was full of rocks, which the powerful waves hurled at us repeatedly. Being the brilliant group we were, though, we were undaunted. So now we are bruised. But oh, the memories.