The pickup and Central Coast - June 21st to 23rd

As readers of this blog know, I've been attempting to recruit someone to join Delilah and I for part of this second phase of the trip. Through a fortuitous series of events, a couple that we are friends with had the husband Mike leaving on business (I heard something about him smoking cigars with Fidel...) and thereby leaving Kim and her two kids (the older, Brianna and the younger Andrew) ripe for the trip picking.

We stopped by their place in Thursday morning, loaded up and were off. LA Traffic was bad as it always seems to be, and found our selves pulling in to San Luis Obispo about two hours later than expected, but still had a little time for the Farmers Market there. Then met up with Kim's sister Krista, and she took us back to their place. There was room in Krista and Jame's house for Kim and kids to sleep, and they were kind enough to provide a power cord and hose for D and I in the RV - which is all that it really takes to make it feel like home any more :).

On Friday, Kim and kids and Krista loaded into the RV, and we motored off to Morro Bay. Had a nice time there feeding the critters (sorry about your sweater Kim...) and then went to dunk our feet in the water, and to my shock Delilah decided that the 60 something degree water was just fine for swimming and proceeded to plunge in. It is sure nice to have a shower, towels and change of clothes in the RV handy for such events... Back to Krista's for dinner, where we can up with a lovely repast of Pizza, and a deluxe salad with custom dressing and all. Very yummy!

Saturday the 23rd we were on the road again, headed up to Santa Cruz for a stay at the most expensive KOA in history - $98 with my member discount! Good news is they have tons of stuff to do. Once D formally wakes up, we'll explore and see what we can get out of it. Kim's kids couldn't nap in the new RV experience, and so are off swimming already. We'll see what else they find. There is a cute little "train" that runs around the park that we will hopefully be able to pull off.

Plan to meet up with a friend of mine, Gregg, tomorrow afternoon, but will see what his schedule ended up looking like. Might try to do "Roaring Camp Railroad" sometime tomorrow morning on the way up, or, well, we will just see. We are definitely running in the "whatever works" mode, and having a good time.