Capitola Hotel

... to eat 2!! (FYI - this stand is actually on Highway 1 in Moss Landing - they were .49 cents each in Castroville....)

Loaded down with artichokes - and already planning a return visit to Phils & the stand prior to leaving Morgan Hill - we made our last stop of the day in San Juan Bautista. This small city holds a state park along with the 17th of 22 missions built by the ...

Our bags are packed. We've practice-zipped (and to our amazement, they do close!)
We are soooo ready to go.
But there is only one way to begin this blog - with a huge thank you to our Dad for this incredible gift!
Thank you! We love you! We are looking forward to boring the hell out of you with our pictures at New Years!

... rundown, so instead we picked a little town just outside Santa Cruz called Capitola.

Although not quite the Big Sur that we would be travelling down later on in the week,the drive along the coast was fantastic and we stopped off a number of times at beautiful deserted beaches with rough, Pacific waves.

When we arrived at our b&b, The Jewel Box, we were so pleased, it was really sweet and had a ...

... tourist shops were all that was on offer except for .... the Monterey Aquarium. This is very highly regarded and, after we paid and looked around, we can see why. The aquarium focuses on the not so big marine life so no whales and dolphins like Seaworld but many chances to see fish, small sharks, otters and the beautifu sea horses and jellyfish (in the case of jellyfish beautiful behind a sheet of ...

... When we stopped for breakfast, the gals there were quick to remind us that there was nothing in front of us for another 200 miles. Just keep driving. Reaching Lee Vinings, near Mono Lake, barely over the California border made me twinge with a kinda homesick feeling. Like a horse that was close enough to home to know the trail to stable and feedbag, I wanted to keep going, but we had a couple more days ahead of us. Saturday ...

... sans shower). Seventeen feet long, six feet wide inside, plenty of room to stand up and move around easily inside. Add a toilet, sink, 2 burner stove, heat, light, air bed... you get the picture. And good thing that it's cozy, because Cachuma Lake is freakin' cold. The wind off the resevoir is frightful. I'm stuck in a corner trying to stay out of the wind all snuggled up in my Roadie (with a glass of bubbles while ...

... me the name of a yacht broker who was fabulous. He name is Pam and if you are in the Kemah area you must get in touch with her. price@unitedyacht.com. Best of all, she worked with a really great company, J.M. Yachts. http://www.yachtworld.com/jmyachts/ Karol and Jerry Moulder are the owners and they treated me very well. For example, when my mother passed away, they took care of my two rottweilers! In fact, they ...

... a couple of old Scousers didn't give me much confidence that I would be able to get a ticket to Alcatraz today let alone anytime in the next hour or so. Found the ticket office after wandering around rather aimlessly and taking photos of seagulls but contrary to my advice, I was able to get a ticket there and then for a half-hourly ferry leaving a convenient 3 minutes later. Ferry took just about 10 minutes ...

... much in the few places I went to that I wanted to see and do and didn't get to, and so many other places in the world that there are to go to, that home seems a little boring and a hideout from the world. I met so many people travelling who are either travelling on their 40 days of vacation from some job in Europe, or have taken LOA and have been randomly travelling the globe for the last year, that my 20 day trip seems like a weekend. That's not to belittle it. I had ...

... zavolat mu, ... a je ku vsetkemu ciarovy kod, takze len oslenujete ten kod, ktory chcete a je to. Dokonca hned dostanete aj vytlacene: kto to bol, vsetky udaje o nom, co chcel a co mate urobit a este k tomu to mate vsetko na diskete v ten isty den!!!!!!! Wooooooha! 21. storocie, ludkovia! A popri tom sa smejete a zabavate sa. TO JE ZIVOT!!!! :-) Pekny den, idem si vychutnat svoju King Size bed, co je velka ako letisko v Chicago O'Hare. :-)