Feature Trailer
Going Back to Cali
WORDS & PHOTOS CARLEY BEIMEL
My name is Carley Beimel,
I’m 31 years old and I
live in the South Bay of
Los Angeles, California.
My husband Joe Beimel is forty and
just retired as a thirteen-year Major
League baseball player. We are the
owners of Coastal Cocktails, featuring
our Woody Caravan bar: Cali. We’ve
rented in Southern California for ten
years during the off seasons of baseball
after discovering Playa Del Rey when
Joe played with the Dodgers. We have
been blessed enough to experience
living in Playa Del Rey, Manhattan Beach,
Hermosa Beach, and currently Redondo
Beach, which are all directly south of LAX
airport. Aside from moving locally here
in California, between both Joe and I we
have moved 78 times in our lifetime. I
love that our mobile life is now colliding
with the mobile lifestyle of caravans/
trailers.
I grew up similar to an army brat with my
father working in the Casino Industry.
I spent the first four years of my life in
the Bahamas, then Ft. Lauderdale, Florida,
Las Vegas, Nevada, and parts of Southern
New Jersey, including the Atlantic City
area.
After graduating high school, I packed an
overnight bag and drove from Southern
New Jersey to New York City, not realizing
that would be the day I’d move out of my
house and make New York a temporary
home. I was able to convince someone
to give me the chance to waitress at a
high end, VIP bottle service night club
called Aer, which catered to some of the
biggest actors, musicians, models and
athletes in the industry. I later met my
husband while splitting time working
in New York in the summer and Miami
during the winter months and spent the
next ten years as the wife of a baseball
player, a life that is far more demanding
than people may realize with a schedule
of at least 162 games a year. We moved
on average five times a year, relocating
to places like Washington D.C., Denver,
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