We have added a few more pics to our photo album for this trip.
After nearly 4 weeks in the rental house in San Francisco it was time to think about returning to life in our little trailer.
The first two days of this week were still in San Francisco so we did a couple of things we liked to do as well as packed and did our share of cleaning the house. When Marian was still here we hiked a bit of the way up to the top of Grand View Peak, so we decided to finish the job. What a view over the city...
On Monday we packed the car and headed back up to Petaluma to rescue our trailer out of storage at the Petaluma KOA. We stayed that night at the KOA. Must say, the house was nice but being back in our little trailer, in our own bed, was very nice.
Monday night was game 5 of the World Series and being Giants fans we had to watch this. The KOA provides cable service, at each site, but we thought it would be better to watch it in the KOA lounge on their big screen TV. We went into the lounge at about the time the game was to start. Nobody around. TV off. Looking around we saw no evidence of a TV remote to turn the thing on/off or change channels and no indication how to turn the darn thing on. I, Brian, headed over to the office while Kris waited in the lounge. Upon arriving back at the lounge with a KOA staffer, I found Kris sitting watching the ball game! Turns out that she just plugged it in at which time the power and channel buttons became more obvious! The KOA staffer, a young lady, commented that Kris was clearly a lot more "technical" that I was! We all had a good laugh.
We watched a few innings in the lounge. At one point a guy comes in and asks about the score. He then asks who won game 1. We told him that the Giants did but this was game 5 not game 2...He was dumbfounded and said that they had been travelling too long and he lost track. We asked how long they had been travelling... "just under two weeks"... HUH!
After a few innings it was time to head back to our site to make dinner. We set up our own little tv outside to watch the game while we made dinner, ate under the stars and cheered loudly when the Giants won the game and the World Series. Nice.
On Tuesday off we went to Santa Cruz where we decided we would stay for about a week and just rest and see some more of that area. Rather than do the "Mapquest recommended" trip around the East Bay, we went over the Golden Gate bridge, took the highway 1 turn off through the Presidio, across Geary Street to the ocean shore near the Cliff House then just followed the shore south through Half Moon Bay to Santa Cruz. Much, much nicer than the freeway down the east bay even if it took a tad longer.
While in Santa Cruz, we did day trips to Carmel, Watsonville, Gilroy and into Santa Cruz as well as visits to numerous beaches to watch the surf and the surfers. The day we went to the Moss Landing beach area we were able to sit and watch a playful otter, only about 15 feet away, for about half an hour (unfortunately we didn't have our camera with us).
All through the area the fields were either being harvested or being seeded for the next round of crops, mostly strawberries. The fields being readied for strawberries were being set up with their covering of plastic. From a distance it looked either like a lake or a snow glacier.
Another amazing sight was the endless fields of brussel sprouts. In some cases, as far as the eye can see. Who knew? So many people claim to not like these little guys but somebody somewhere must be eating a lot of them!
On Saturday when we went into Santa Cruz to see the local surfing museum we lucked out as we came across a surfing competition. WOW... (again we didn't have our camera with us; we'll have to rectify that behaviour!)... was that ever neat, with competition divisions for little kids to seasoned pros. Little kids were called the "Squid Class".
We had fabulous weather all week. Unfortunately as this week ended, the rain started... more on that next week!
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