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day 70: san francisco to morro bay(cayucos)

>> Thursday, December 31, 2009

we got new tires for the camper and we are headed south about 5 hours to san luis obispo county, SLO for short, to a place called morro bay just south off cayucos. this area is cute... the towns are quaint and unpretentious and the landscape is beautiful. morro bay gets it's name from the volcanic plug that anchors the bay, rightfully called morro rock.

morro rock from our campsite

morro rock

sunset - the wet sand of low tide made a crazy shadow

we will be here for new years eve and we decided to stay in for dinner and what better way to ring in the new year than a seafood boil right next to the pacific ocean. the boil will consist of fingerling potatoes, boiler onions, kielbasa, clams and lobster and of course prosecco. if we feel restless after dinner the inn at morro bay is having a latin jazz band that sounds like they are pretty hot.

day 58: newport beach to santa cruz

>> Friday, December 18, 2009

we made the long drive up the left coast from newport beach to santa cruz to do some camping with my good buddy weston. the drive was absolutely amazing. driving through malabu and then north of santa barbara with the view of channel island national park was simply unreal. in order to get a full week of weston-time before christmas we did sacrifice a lot of california, but we will be doing a u turn in san francisco and catching what we missed on the way back down.

here is our crazy campsite in cotillion gardens on the edge of the redwood forest.

day 42-47 texas at large

>> Sunday, December 6, 2009

day 42: new orleans to galveston, texas. i-10 through baton rouge was hell, it took a hour to travel 3 miles. then finally once in galveston the rain came. i lived close to galveston when i was young and getting into town brought back a flood of memories. galveston looked a bit worse for wear after being devastated with storms last year. ironically we really did not get to explore much since it rained for 48 hours straight.

galveston island state park campground under water.

stopped through the old familiar home town of my family.

day 44: galveston to port aransas. getting tired of the being wet, we pushed on to port aransas down the coast from galveston. in port aransas the rain stopped, but then it got cold the temperature dropped 15 degrees. port-a is a cool town... the beach is hard packed and the municipality considers the beach a roadway and also you can have a campfire anywhere and camp on the beach for free. we drove 20 miles of the beach down to padre island.

the surf was flat and the "men in grey suits" were gigantic.

day 46: port aransas to austin. this is the unfortunate day that we have left the coastline to cross the country. we arrived late to austin, got a cheap hotel room and headed out on the town. we got some good food and some hot music at lambert's, an unscale bbq joint in downtown austin. in the morning i ended up in bad shape, either some food poisoning or i was dosed by someone at the bar.... i spend the next 10 hours with my head in the toilet. we had to stay an extra night just so i could recover properly.

checked out a set by "brownout!" a blazin' hot latin funk band... they dudes kicked ass. they serve as the back up band for prince.

well we're movin' on up!

>> Sunday, November 22, 2009

we brought lunch box to great escapes rv in clearwater to repair a broken lift cable and after some investigation it appears as though more than one of the lift cables were damaged. so... we are the proud owners of a new(to us) coleman pop-up. it is a slight upgrade in size and features, including safety, so we are excited.

here is lunch box in the shop with a crutch

introducing our second camper... bento box! - slightly larger and overpriced. in the middle between kristen and i is linda, she is the service manager at great escapes. linda and her crew; elloy and chico were instrumental in making our purchasing experience pleasurable. they took good care of us. thank you again y'all.

day 23/24: st. augustine to sebastian inlet to palm beach

>> Saturday, November 14, 2009

days 23/24 were full of travel and i learned a valuable lesson. simple put.... surf when there are waves. we traveled from st. augustine to sebastian inlet on day 23. during our trip down scenic a1a we stopped in daytona/ponce inlet for lunch. while eating my subway $5 foot long, the waves were waist to chest and mackin'. instead of sneaking out for little session i decided to keep driving, since sebastian inlet is famous for surfing and the forecast for the next 3 days was good. we arrived to sebastian inlet did out thing, i awoke to next morning to a cold blown out surf! in addition our camper has snapped a lift cable so only 3 of the posts will support the roof now. we decided to move on to palm beach in search of sun and better waves, and yes we have found it.

daytona beach mackin'

sebastian inlet slackin'

palm beach(lake worth) clean and fun

air temp 88 water temp 77

got me some green room section

lovin' life again

day 21: flagler to st. augustine, fl

>> Wednesday, November 11, 2009

this is the view from the window in our bedroom at beverly beach campground at flagler, although the view was beautiful the constant 30mph head wind was a lil' irritating. with threat of hurricane ida moving up on us we decided to doubleback to st augustine for couple days to hunker down out of the wind

adding insult to injury

>> Wednesday, October 28, 2009

although the "sound front" campsite in frisco was beautiful we soon found out that lunch box was vulnerable to a broad side pounding 30mph winds directly off the water. while i was checking the surf a couple miles away at the frisco pier i go a call from kristen and i hurried back to the camper to find the awning had snapped and blown backwards over the pop-up. we decided to pick-up and relocate our site to somewhere inland and a bit more protected from the elements. later that same day i managed to topple over an entire glass of wine into our high end altec lancing ipod speakers. dohh! time to go to bed before anything else breaks.