Capri Motel - Santa Cruz

... caught up on sleep after San Fran. Up at 9am and headed towards Fisherman's Wharf and looked in lots of gift shops. Rich got tempted by clam chowder so we had lunch on the pier, sitting next to lots of huge pelicans outside the window! Very scary. Then drove down Cannery Row, named after a John Steinbeck novel! Went in a shop that sold things that ...

... of Japanese, Buddhist feel, right up my street! We dropped off our bags and headed down to the towncentre. We walked along Capitola Beach where local children were building dens out of the mass of driftwood that had been washed ashore. As the sun set, we walked down the pier, where the local fisherman were hanging out. We stood gazing out to the ocean and then, to our surprise, we saw a dolphin, weaving in ...

... LOLA" <br>click.<br><br>Gathered from post-incident madness, Christa walks back into the restaurant and turns to Ryan "Come with me NOW". I think Ryan figured out what was going on, went back to the table and said to everyone "SOMEONES STEALING ALL OUR ****"...a nanosecond later the table about flips with the speed that all the guys rose. Out the door and full sprinnnt to the hill where Lola awaits...<br><br>Meanwhile, I'm still meeting with utter panic, the guys at the bottom of the ...

... to be exact! We'd found a nice restaurant the night before which we'd decided we would go to. It was right on the waterfront of Monterey Bay, called the Fish Hopper. We had a nice 'booth' style table overlooking the water which we enjoyed a starter of Muscles, with Salmon and Swordfish as mains. The fish was very fresh and thoroughly enjoyable with a nice glass of Reisling.<br><br>That finished us off nicely for the day so we retired back to the hotel for the night.<br><br><br>

... br>- Watched a pretty impressive fireworks show from a bench at the beach. We saw a sign that there was going to be a show while we were at the Boardwalk. We waited around in the cold, and it was worth it. Very good show. <br>- Came back to the campsite and became disgruntled all over again. Idiots at the group site continued to walk through our site, even late at night. Ugh&#8230; It&#8217;s probably their fault that the bathrooms are so disgusting! <br><br>

Hey everybody, Thanks for posting messages and adding your own photos! We can't do ours yet as these public domain pcs won't let us!!!! We will keep trying tho! Forgot to tell you in our rush to say we were moving on what a great time we had in SF. The trolley cars are great, we even got to hang off the sides as it was careering up and down those hills. Apparently the brakes are made of plywood and need replacing every 3 days - you can actually ...

... where two homeless people were struggling to find any kind of joy in life until Nelly appears and imparts some wisdom on us. They were so glad that I decided to stop by and participate in their meeting! It's funny because the youth in our group near Baltimore did a movie on the Ten Worlds called the Real Ten Worlds (spoof off of MTV's The Real World). I had to show Lisa. We came home to a house with Katrina and her friends hanging out. Lisa and I watched the movie that I had on ...

... then having to back-track, and nearly 8 hours of driving along the super-curvy road (I think I counted more than 10,000 turns ) we arrived with dizzy heads in San Francisco around 8:00 p.m. today Monday. After checking the not-so promising forecast for the San Francisco Bay Area we decided to go a bit further and make it all the way to Santa ...

... to sample one though). We did however get some good views of the bay and alcatraz (famous prison) from the top of coit tower. Ofcourse we couldnt finish the day without walking across the golden gate bridge and back . we must have walked about 20miles that day. We are still in San francisco but we atravel back down to LA today along the pacific coast highway to see the scenic bits it was too dark to see on the way up. i will write my final travel log in L.A.

... doc! Didn't expect to have to resort to pepto-bismol before Mexico, but there you go... Still feeling weak from being violently ill the whole night... I have to say I felt a bit vulnerable being alone so far away from home. Thanks for all your entries. It's nice to know that you're all keeping in touch!