Happy trails in California
March 6, 2009
A week has gone and we’re halfway through this trip. Happy has transported us to the desert, a stark contrast to San Diego’s blue bay. The trip down the coast was beautiful as always, and save for one glitch, B and Ed’s maiden voyage in their 5th wheel went well. We spent a night on a bluff above the ocean in Big Sur, then settled in at Morro Bay, where we wine tasted in Paso, visited the farmers market in SLO and kayaked with sea otters and cormorants on Morro Bay. And spent part of an evening with a neighboring camper who shared lots of samples from her chocolate business! The time went by too fast.
San Diego brought Terry and I to our old stomping grounds and a beachside camping resort where I took a yoga class, we rode our bikes, did laundry and had breakfast with the resident ducks each day. We revisited the ‘70s with breakfast taquitos (still 90 cents) at El Indio, fish sandwiches at Pt. Loma Seafood, bike riding on Shelter Island and kayaking through our last residence, the “free anchorage,” where boaters now pay up to $225/month and have solar panels to run electronics that never existed when we lived on kerosene power.
Never much of a desert rat, I grudgingly admit it can exhibit compelling beauty, particularly now when the desert wildflowers are in bloom. We’re at Agua Caliente, a county park with three pools filled by natural hot springs, the overflow running down the hill in a lukewarm creek that gives rise to an incongruous desert night chorus of frogs. We awoke to prints of quail, rabbit and fox outside the trailer and sat in the enclosed hot pool this afternoon, watching a roadrunner run…down…the…road. We saw stagecoach trails dating to the 1840s this afternoon and will camp near the Butterfield Stage route tomorrow, just us and Happy unplugged in the desert. Can’t wait.
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