{"id":25270,"date":"2018-07-12T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T22:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25270"},"modified":"2018-07-12T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T22:33:49","slug":"take-a-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/take-a-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf Rodeo, Lotuses, Bells and Pride &#8212; Wanna Take a Ride?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/surfrodeo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wanna take a ride at\u00a0the biggest beach party on the West Coast? At the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/ventura-surf-rodeo.html\">Surf Rodeo in Ventura<\/a> July 14-15, 2018 on Pierpont Beach, you can wear your favorite cowboy hat competing in a rough &amp; tumble surfing competition. You can also ride on a mechanical bull and hang on for &#8216;yer life. You can hitch a ride, come on a bike, or hoof it to help the environment and ease traffic. Then you can listen to 30+ bands with names like Highway Starr, a truck driver&#8217;s favorite! It&#8217;s smooth sailing to this annual festival of surf, sand and country living which includes Bikini Cowgirl Contest, Cornhole Tournament, beer gardens on the sand and Kids&#8217; Corral. Yee-haw!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/july-festivals.html\">Take a Ride<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>AUBURN: Ain&#8217;t Necessarily (Grateful) Dead Festival, free Jul.14<br \/>\nBIG BEAR LAKE: Big Bear Regional Cookoff Jul.14 free, $tastings<br \/>\nCALIFORNIA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/california-summer-concerts.html\">Free concerts<\/a><br \/>\nCHICO: Slice of Chico Jul.13-14, free<br \/>\nCROCKETT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/crockett-sugartown-festival.html\"> Sugartown Festival<\/a> Jul.15 free<br \/>\nDUNCANS MILLS: Civil War Days Jul.14-15<br \/>\nFORTUNA: Fortuna Rodeo Jul.15-22, $tickets<br \/>\nGRASS VALLEY: California Worldfest Jul.12-15<br \/>\nIMPERIAL BEACH: Sun &amp; Sea Festival Jul.14, free<br \/>\nLOS ALTOS: Arts &amp; Wine Festival Jul.14-15, free<br \/>\nLOS ANGELES: : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-angeles-lotus-festival.html\"> Lotus Festival<\/a> Jul.14-15, free<br \/>\nOLYMPIC VALLEY: Squaw Valley Art, Wine and Music Festival Jul.14-15, free<br \/>\nPETALUMA: Rivertown Revival Jul.14<br \/>\nREDONDO BEACH:\u00a0South Bay Greek Festival Jul.13-15<br \/>\nROHNERT PARK:\u00a0Bluegrass &amp; Craft Beer Fest Jul.15<br \/>\nSACRAMENTO: : California State Fair Jul.13-29<br \/>\nSAN DIEGO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-pride.html\">Pride Festival<\/a> Jul.13-15, parade free<br \/>\nSAN DIEGO: Festival of the Bells Jul.14-15, free<br \/>\nSANTA BARBARA:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-barbara-french-festival.html\">French Festival<\/a> Jul.14-15, free<br \/>\nVISTA: Vista BBQ Classic<br \/>\nWILSEYVILLE: Mountain Vibe Music Gathering Jul.13-15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanna take a ride at\u00a0the biggest beach party on the West Coast? At the annual Surf Rodeo in Ventura July 14-15, 2018 on Pierpont Beach, you can wear your favorite cowboy hat competing in a rough &amp; tumble surfing competition. You can also ride on a mechanical bull and hang on for &#8216;yer life. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25271,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270\/revisions\/25271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}