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5 Ways To Survive And Thrive On A Road Trip With Your Best Friend

Here's how we survived our first vacation without our parents.

Lauren Hernandez

Aug 05, 2018

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5 Ways To Survive And Thrive On A Road Trip With Your Best Friend

Lauren Hernandez

This July, my best friend and I went to San Luis Obispo, California for a mini vacation and my birthday! We drove five hours to get there, but it was ALL worth it in the long run.

Here's how we survived our first vacation without our parents:

Beach All Day, Every Day!

Avila Beach, San Luis Obispo, California

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We went to the beach all day every day!

We stayed around 4 hours each day at Avila Beach, tanning and swimming in the ocean! We also went shopping at the surf shops, where we found cute anklets and stickers!

The best food we had at Avila Beach was a giant açaí bowl and some snow cones during the SLO heatwave!

We even went to the beach for a sunset photo shoot and once late at night to look at the stars!

Donuts Every Day!

SloDoCo donuts

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My favorite dessert spot in San Luis Obispo is SloDoCo. The San Luis Obispo Donut Company has every donut you can ever dream of!

The Slo Donut Company serves donuts 24/7 and host events every month such as live music. The shop sells vegan donuts, rainbow donuts, and lavender, mint, and crème brûlée flavored donuts!

During my time there, we went to SloDoCo every day and even made a couple friends. I would definitely recommend to anyone going to Slo to make a pit stop at this local donut shop!

Stock Up On Sun Bum!

Sun Bum sunscreen

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We spent an average of four hours a day tanning and an even a longer period of time on the beach!

To protect our skin and smell like their signature banana fragrance, we used Sun Bum products every day. We used their sunscreen, after-sun aloe, leave-in conditioner, hand sanitizer, and lip balm.

What can we say, it's our favorite!

We Spent All Our Money At Surf Shops!

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On my birthday, we spent the whole day shopping and exploring Downtown San Luis Obispo!

We went to multiple surf shops, boutiques, and even the gum wall! One of the best things we had was ice cream at Doc Burnstein's Ice Cream Lab!

After a full day of shopping, we realized we spent most of our money at a local surf shop, where bought Sex Wax air fresheners, candles, and lots and lots of stickers!

We Ate Good Every Day!

Açaí on the beach

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Eating açaí on the beach was definitely one of the highlights of this trip! It was very satisfying and made an awesome Instagram story!

We also went to many dessert shops where we got frozen yogurt, ice cream, and donuts! We weren't the healthiest on this trip especially getting Starbucks every day!

We were also able to try many local San Luis Obispo restaurants famous to their town such as High Street Deli!

Cool Off with These 8 Beers!

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Summer is hot and humid, and it's almost like summer was made specifically to drink the refreshing, cold, crisp wonderful, delicious, nutritious nectar of the gods. Which is none other than beer; wonderful cold beer. With summer playing peek-a-boo around the corner while we finish up this semester, it's time to discuss the only important part of summer. And if you haven't already guessed, it's beer. There are few things I take more seriously than my beer, in order are: sports... and beer. Here are my favorite summer brews:

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Why you should spend your next summer in New England.

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Three years ago, I chose to attend college in Philadelphia, approximately 360 miles away from my small town in New Hampshire. I have learned many valuable lessons away from home, and have thoroughly enjoyed my time spent in Pennsylvania. One thing that my experience has taught me, however, is that it is absolutely impossible to beat a New England summer.

You cannot beat the beach. Believe it or not (which many people may not), New England has a long and beautiful coastline. Most of my high school summers were spent sitting on the Wall at Hampton Beach, getting sunburnt and eating Acai bowls from The Secret Spot. The Wall was the place to be both during the day and at night. We begin our days there with a KB's bagel and coffee, and end them with pizza and ice cream. It’s not a New England summer without that 4 p.m. text from someone, “Who wants to meet at the Wall tonight?” Nighttime is for Tripoli’s Pizza, the sound of waves, and wishes on shooting stars. Wednesday nights are especially important, as those are the nights that Hampton Beach sets off the weekly firework display.

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5 Ways To Survive And Thrive On A Road Trip With Your Best Friend

Here's how we survived our first vacation without our parents.

Beach All Day, Every Day!

Donuts Every Day!

Stock Up On Sun Bum!

We Spent All Our Money At Surf Shops!

We Ate Good Every Day!

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Cool Off with These 8 Beers!

Coors Light Summer Brew:

Leinenkugel Summer Shandy

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

Sam Adams Summer Ale

Hell or High Watermelon

Blue Moon Summer Honey

LandShark Lager

Corona

75 degrees and sunny, plus, no humidity. I mean do I really need to say more?

Perfect Weather

You'll get an effortless tan

You can exercise with a view

You don't have to worry about bug bites

In n Out all day, every day

We have outdoor concerts

We live where people vacation

Because let's be honest, we all use lyrics.

1. “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside. It's where my demons hide.”

2. “Tonight, we are young.”

3. “Cuz I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.”

4. “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame.”

5. “I can’t wait to fall in love with you, you can’t wait to fall in love with me.”

6. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin with no makeup on.”

7. “Why you so obsessed with me?”

8. “We ain’t ever getting older.”

9. “I didn’t know that I was starving until I tasted you.”

10. “Didn’t they tell you I’m a savage?"

11. “I’m gonna make you miss me.”

12. "Cheers to the freakin weekend.”

13. “Love’s a game. Wanna play?”

14. “You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to.”

15. “Let’s set each other’s lonely nights, Be each other’s paradise.”

16. “Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls."

17. “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days.”

18. “But you will remember me for centuries.”

19. “Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman."

20. “Don’t act like it’s a bad thing to fall in love with me.”

21. “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

22. “Find me where the wild things are.”

23. “I’m high on lovin’ you.”

24. “If you’re gonna be somebody’s heartbreak, somebody’s mistake, if you’re gonna be somebody’s first time, somebody’s last time, be mine.”

25. “Don’t be afraid to take the road less traveled on.”

Everything Bruce says in his classic rock songs.

1. "Talk about a dream Try to make it real You wake up in the night With a fear so real Spend your life waiting For a moment that just don't come Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)

2. "It's a town full of losers/ I'm pulling out of here to win" (Thunder Road)

3. "You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above" (Tunnel of Love)

4. "I got something in my heart/ I been waitin' to give/ I got a life I wanna start/ One I been waitin' to live" (Leah)

5. “God have mercy on the man/ Who doubts what he’s sure of” (Brilliant Disguise)

7. “Is a dream a lie when it don’t come true, or is it something worse?” (The River)

Why you should spend your next summer in New England.

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1. "Talk about a dream
Try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
Spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)