Courtyard By Marriott Salinas

... After a 3 week stay we have to leave that particular campground for 7 days prior to coming back.

Well, our 3 weeks in Manteca had come to an end. Fortunately TTN operates several other campgrounds in the Bay Area. Our choices for a new homesite included Yuba City, Marysville, Cloverdale, Hollister and Morgan Hill. We've spent time in all of these places but it had been years since ...

We packed up and went for a practice trip down to Pfeiffer State Park in Big Sur on Tuesday. The camp site was great; on the river with almost the whole park to ourselves. What a beautiful place to camp.
The tent went up without incident.
The food was great, thanks to Steve.....shrimp,asparagus and potatoes for dinner and breakfast burrito the next morning.

We have a ...

... 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 ...

... watched on their first ever "date" 13 years ago, we just had to try it. It was fantastic, one of those good-natured rides that makes you giggle uncontrolably rather than scream from fear. Then we threw a few dollars into pinball machines and some archaic arcade games before getting back on the road. Sadly the weather was meanwhile getting worse, not better. Rain started to drip from the sky and it got heavier as we entered Monterey where we ...

... that their spiritual calling includes caring for the earth and teaching people about Earthcare as a sacred duty. They purchased the buildings and grounds of a former boys school. Recently they invested much time and money in building a gold LEED certified facility and now proudly lead "green" tours. Sister Pat Marie Mulpeters gave us a brief tour that afternoon, and after settling into our room we headed off to dinner at Ivy's home at the Las Cumbres ...

It rained most of the night and cleared up this morning. It was much cooler today...didn't get out of the 60's. The boys did school work most of the day. They got a treat this afternoon when they went to a skateboard park we' heard about. This is one of their favorite things to do. Keegan rode his 'Wave' and Collin rode his scooter. We found a church close by that had 'Awana' tonight. So, the boys were very excited to learn some new ...

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We visited a Mission ( influence from the Mexicans) – lovely old church & Mexican architecture.

It's 10.46 and i've just created my account on this thing in a huge, super-slick Apple store just a few blocks away from my hostel. Been up for a few hours now, had a good breakfast at an Italian Jazz Cafe place which has live Jazz every night so i will try and check it out tonight. I'm staying in a dorm with 4 guys and one girl at the moment who are all ...

... high dry grass. I climbed it quickly, and at the top I came to a tangle of thorn bushes that stretched thirty yards in all directions. I stopped there for a moment, breathing hard from the climb, and then sat down and crossed my arms over my knees. I didn't see a way to get around them. I figured I'd have to go back the way I had come, but as I stood up a thought rushed into my head. It said 'you can't go back.' This thought was very sad, and also very true. Instead of ...

Last angry battle with bus driver over where to camp. The group wants to camp where they can party loud and late. He wants to camp where each of us would have to pay a dollar but he would not have to pay the fee out of the kitty in the other location. I accuse him of taking kick backs and skimming the kitty for himself. We nearly come to blows. The group seems to back authority not me. But they do get their way and party. I go to sleep relatively early not feeling popular.