Urban Camping The Cruz

Last night was our first successful urban camp in Santa Cruz. After driving around like headless chickens through the city and checking out a very creepy possibly abandoned campground Bob's Pinegrove, we heard rumours of over night camping on the scenic West Cliff Drive along Santa Cruz's premier waterfront boardwalk. We found a nice quiet side street and set up shop. We decided after a couple cervasas to take a stroll along the boardwalk and saw a sign that said urban campers will be arrested, not fined, not warned, but taken for a spin in the ole paddy wagon, arrested. So we headed back to the van, to our relief there were other urban campers joining us in our campsite. All in All there were no arrests and we woke up bright and early to the sound of waves fifty feet from our door.

At the time we were breaking two of the four laws