Friday, March 20, 2009
Calistoga
We have just today arrived at the Fairgrounds in Calistoga--imagine a gravel parking lot with water and electric hook-ups. (and very basic bathrooms) No ambiance. $30 a night. Convenient location. And now FREE Wireless! Since we don't have bikes and Kit's back is still not OK we probably won't linger here but at least will get to go out to dinner tonight.
In the past week we have been mostly at public parks and one private park where the wireless was not working. We spent a night in Joshua Tree NP and had a good hike. Then headed to the coast. Ended up spending 3 nights in a new favorite paradise--Refugio State Beach just north of Santa Barbara. The campground has no hookups or even a dump station so it was a strain to get our water to last that long. But the beach was less than 2 car lengths from our campsite. Palm trees. Balmy breezes (no chilly wind) The bike trail is closed now but you can walk for a mile and a half and then walk on the beach another mile and a half. Soaked up sun. Then on to Morro Bay which is a very fine state park where we had not been before. (no hookups but water and dump station). Kit messed up his back while we were at Refugio and is not very mobile. I had to do the dumping. Hopefully with his new cane we can make it into town for dinner tonight.
Leaving Morro we drove up the famous California Hwy 1. Just as advertised it is twisty turny up and down and quite close to the ocean. Awesome weather. Luckily Kit doesn't mind driving--I couldn't have done it. Finally made it to Monterey and turned off the beach to stay up on the hill at Leguna Seco. Today was a long morning of mostly city/ freeway driving. Glad to arrive here.
I will try to post some photos. We are still trying to work without the mouse as it may be what is causing our computer to crash.
In the past week we have been mostly at public parks and one private park where the wireless was not working. We spent a night in Joshua Tree NP and had a good hike. Then headed to the coast. Ended up spending 3 nights in a new favorite paradise--Refugio State Beach just north of Santa Barbara. The campground has no hookups or even a dump station so it was a strain to get our water to last that long. But the beach was less than 2 car lengths from our campsite. Palm trees. Balmy breezes (no chilly wind) The bike trail is closed now but you can walk for a mile and a half and then walk on the beach another mile and a half. Soaked up sun. Then on to Morro Bay which is a very fine state park where we had not been before. (no hookups but water and dump station). Kit messed up his back while we were at Refugio and is not very mobile. I had to do the dumping. Hopefully with his new cane we can make it into town for dinner tonight.
Leaving Morro we drove up the famous California Hwy 1. Just as advertised it is twisty turny up and down and quite close to the ocean. Awesome weather. Luckily Kit doesn't mind driving--I couldn't have done it. Finally made it to Monterey and turned off the beach to stay up on the hill at Leguna Seco. Today was a long morning of mostly city/ freeway driving. Glad to arrive here.
I will try to post some photos. We are still trying to work without the mouse as it may be what is causing our computer to crash.
# posted by Carol Harma @ 4:50 PM 
