San Luis, United States Travel Blogs

This past week turned out to be pretty lazy ...
Oct 14, 1999 (8 photos)

... I couldn't do it without being caught. The place is very impressive and I definitely would recommend visiting it. Now I'm in San Luis Obispo. It's a nice little place that I haven't really looked over yet but I did find Bubble Gum Alley where slightly ...

Now that i've looked around this town i ...
Oct 15, 1999

... protesters ever tries to start a conversation with you ask them if they would consider killing themselves because that's the real problem. San Luis Obispo is home to Cal Poly Tech University. Until tonight I didn't know it was a real farm school - ...

Monday 26 May
Jun 9, 2008 (4 photos)

... . We headed for Alamosa and then turned north towards the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. We stopped for the night at San Luis State Park which seemed like it was in the middle of no-where - that is because it was! Thanks for that little ...

The Drive to Northern California - 2nd Stop
Jun 9, 2007 (1 photos)

Tito Buddy and I had a time constraint and did not plan on stopping by San Luis Obispo.  However, Tito Buds needed a bathroom break and decided to stop anyway.  I waited in the car for a long time; I saw a few scary looking bikers come out of the ...

San Simeon - Templeton - San Luis Obispo
Mar 6, 2006 (10 photos)

Fortunately Lynne was restored to full working order today (she rarely suffers from a two day hangover- JOKE!), so we were able to continue our journey South back towards Los Angeles. It's a good job she was feeling better, because today we were visiting ...

SLO
Sep 2, 2008 (4 photos)

... one side, and thick kelp beds on the other, and seals, otters and sea birds bringing the whole scene to life. Then on to San Luis Obispo for the night, which is a college town halfway between SF and LA.  SLO is a very comfortable and livable town, ...

SFO to SLO
Aug 3, 2009 (5 photos)

... passing through Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz, Carmel continuing through some of the most spectacular scenery on our way through to San Luis Obispo. The Ride was great and completed without any more calamities, we arrived at the Madonna Inn SLO late afternoon ...

Last leg of our Mexican Odyssey
Apr 1, 2008

We finally crossed the border at San Luis de Rio Colorado just south of Yuma. Since it was dark by the time we got to Yuma, we decided to spend the night in WalMart's parking lot....until the Security guard came over to tell us that City ordinance didn't ...

17 Mile Drive and Big Sur Drive
Aug 31, 2008 (4 photos)

... Carmel and stopped at Whaler's Cove at Point Lobos National Park for lunch. We then drove along the Big Sur scenic route to San Luis Obispo. The drive is incredible, with some fantastic views of mountains on one side and the ocean on the other. We crossed ...

On the Road...
Jun 1, 2007

... which we've now taken to thinking of as a peddle in the park so no-one is in much of a rush to push out. Old San Luis Obispo is beautiful and we've seen plenty of campsites recently so no rush to check out the one down the road. Group spirits are ...

Visiting Dave and Kristyn
Apr 28, 2007 (2 photos)

... days in the city (sorry Los Angeles fans).  Thankfully our good friends Kristyn and Dave live three hours north in San Luis Obispo and were happy to host us for a few days. We took an airport bus up to Santa Barbara where ...

San Luis Mexican Martyr hillside
Jul 3, 2009 (14 photos)

Susan and I stopped to turn right on route 159 and saw a place to walk.  The place turned out to be a Stations of the Cross walk up a pretty steep hill with a tribute to many Catholic Priests martyred in Mexico from 1927 to 1929.  The vistas ...

Day One Ninety-Six
May 10, 2005

Motel 6

California Dreamin'
Sep 4, 2009 (5 photos)

... the better part of the late afternoon/early evening at the beach, the two continued northward another 15 minutes into the city of San Luis Obispo.  Upon exiting the interstate, they decided to take a self-guided tour of the city and Cal Poly campus.& ...

Hola de México
Aug 27, 2008 (24 photos)

... hour the road levels out into a desert and far off to the north there appears to be a salt flat. I then came to San Luis and found a clean inexpensive room at the California Motel and it has very fast internet service. All in all it was very successful ...

We "survived" California Highway 1
Mar 28, 2008 (35 photos)

... in the San Luis Obispo area for a while. He and his wife sold their home and bought an RV, and they now traveled all over the United States, where he was often able to work. We saw him drive by the next day while we were lunching by the side of the road, ...

more driving up to chico
May 16, 2007 (2 photos)

Peeled myself off of Jose's couch in the morning and walked back to Dobber's place with Pixie to collect her car.  Maybe we had a little too much fun at DTB last night. After a little stop-off at Pita Pit (oh how I missed it while in Europe), we hit ...

Pacific Coast Highway Day #1
Mar 26, 2008 (20 photos)

... on a little rooftop cafe for lunch.  After lunch we were off again headed north through numerous small beach towns and on towards San Luis Obispo for the night. We met up with Chris' cousin Brad in SLO and grabbed dinner at Woodstock pizza (it was ...

California here I come
Sep 7, 2007 (8 photos)

... nach Downtown und dann via U-Bahn nach Berkeley. Dort traf ich erst Franzi, dann Marie. Franzi fährt mit mir nach San Luis Obispo. Wir entscheiden aufgrund der Situation (weder sie noch ich haben eine Unterkunft in SLO), schon donnerstags zu fahren und ...

VOLVO!!!
Sep 21, 2007 (5 photos)

ich hab ein Auto! na sagen wir mal: ein Halbes! - dafür aber ein VOLVO -yeah! Franzi hat den von einem deutschen Vorgänger übernommen und ich hab mich jetzt quasi eingekauft. Heute waren wir bei der Versicherung und haben mich noch als Fahrer nachgetragen ...

At the Beach
Nov 17, 2005

California is awesome! I can't believe we are seeing everything we have heard so much about. At to boot - we are having record breaking weather 75-85! Yeah. Half Moon Bay was gorgeous - camped right at the beach (they have buoys 1000 miles out that ...

Its almost here
Jun 25, 2007

So it is almost time for me to leave. I am sitting here thinking of all the stuff I have to remember(ie passport, ticket info, id card blah blah blah) I am kind of freaking out that the time has finally come for me to leave on my journey to the other side ...

The Castle visit
Jun 26, 2009 (5 photos)

... 3.00 pm, and were unsure where to head. Chose one area slightly inland, but ultimately changed our mind and headed to San Luis Obispo. However the detour gave us some great views of stunning wine country which is prevalent in this area. Made me think ...

Endlich!
Sep 9, 2007

... gleich hin um den Vertrag zu unterschreiben, bleiben aber noch bis morgen im Hostel. Die Adresse ist: 863 Vista Del Brisa San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 USA Falls ihr mich mal googlen wollt... http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&q=863+Vista+ ...

San Luis Obispo
Apr 13, 2007

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Im just sitting
Jun 27, 2007

Hey There!!! So its Wednesday afternoon and I am sitting in the LAX airport right now, it kinda sucks. I have been here since 8am this morning and my plane doesn't even leave until 550 tonight. When I first got here I was like what am I going to do ...

Snitzle und Seilchen-Springen
Sep 14, 2007 (1 photos)

Als Dankeschön für das Wakeboarden haben wir Mark und Josh (mein anderer Roomie) Schnitzel und Bratkartoffeln gemacht. Dazu gab's Franziskaner Weissbier welches wir ihm am Dienstag als Danke und Willkommensgeschenk geschenkt hatten. Die Freude war groß ...

3 year post peace corps status update
Aug 3, 2007 (3 photos)

So I was recently reminded of this blog that I had almost forgotten about since its been so long and I figured that if 5000 something people had checked it out maybe it would be worthy to give an update on my life and a bit of reflection on the experience ...

warten, suchen, warten
Sep 8, 2007

immer noch kein Zimmer. Aus der Hoffnungslosigkeit wird langsam Galgenhumor. Zum Glück sind wir zu zweit - das hilft. Wir schauen uns alle Zimmer zusammen an. Heute waren wieder 4 Stück dran. das ist das Resultat aus 30-40 Emails und 10-20 Anrufen. Wir ...

ENDLICH, die 2.!
Sep 11, 2007

Jetzt läuft's richtig gut - Franzi hat auch seit eben eine Zusage für einen Platz im Wohnheim. Allerdings erst ab Samstag. Ich habe kostenlos einen schönen Sessel und und ein Bettgestell mit Matratze von der Hostellady bekommen. Wir haben die Sachen heute ...