Californian Road Trip

You could do it readily on the day you drive from Monterey to Cambria ... map here.

The Paso Robles area is a centre of wineries too, if you're interested.

Another question for all you helpful people:

Where abouts in LA should we stay? Keeping in mind we are arriving from north, probably late in the evening or if we arrive in the day it'll be into santa Monica to spend the afternoon here (and see Venice beach area) and we will fly out from LAX and leave our rental car back to the airport.
We have only 3/4 nights here and will be all over the city i think.
We would like to visit tourist sights including Hollywood walk of fame etc and maybe see Beverly Hills area, we also want to hike the hills towards the Hollywood sign (as reccomended by friends) and we have a surf lesson organised on Huntington beach at a surf school there. In the evenings we would like to have casual dinner and drinks somewhere so not super fancy and five star formal but not too divey.
Any extra spare time we have we will probably spend on the beach or pick a neighbourhood to explore.
Again, budget would be $180/night MAX but ideally a little less than $150.

Thanks in advance.

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