Morgan Hill

We are now in the Morgan Hill Thousand Trails park.


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We left San Benito on July 18 and drove 44 miles to get here. Our main reason for being here is that it is close to San Jose and Barb was able to fly to St. Louis to see her mom. She left on Tuesday, 21st, and will return tomorrow.


But our good fortune is that Clare and Jay live in San Francisco and we had hopes of visiting them. Doug and Michel were also in San Francisco to visit Clare and Jay. Jay proposed the idea of us all meeting for dinner on the evening that we arrived. Since it took us until almost five o'clock to set up, they volunteered to drive to Morgan Hill. We had a wonderful dinner at a small Italian restuarant here. I would rate the food a 5 and the ambience a 3. In other words, the food was great, but the restuarant was very noisy from other table conversations. We managed to talk and catch up on everything and so it was a great evening.

We will be here until next Sunday and then we head back to San Benito again.

Love and hugs,
Linda and Barb

This Isn't Just Any Old Kitty Cat

Our last day at San Benito, I was in the car and Barb was just stepping out of the motorhome, and this very "friendly" pussycat just strolled from behind our rig to the tree on our site. He spied a hole that a squirrel had been digging for the past couple of days and my guess is that the squirrel was in it at this time.

He spent about 15 minutes just looking in this hole waiting for the squirrel and then finally just wandered off. He was no more than 10 feet from us, but his interest was not in us. So I just kept taking pictures.

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This was definitely a WOW experience !!!

Monterey: Fisherman's Wharf

Washing and Waxing the Rig

Our big project while in San Benito was to get the rig washed and waxed. When it was new , we paid close to $150 to have someone do it. Then we decided that we could wash and wax it ourselves and it would be a much better job.



We have washed it many times but have not waxed it for almost two years.
We spread the job out over 4 days, just doing a section each morning until about noon when it started to get hot.


Well, that job is done for now.

Some of The Visitors to our Campsite

Each day when we sit out and have our coffee, we get visits from different wildlife.

We thought you might enjoy some of the pictures.

Monterey: 17 Mile Drive

As you can see, it was a very foggy day.

Paicines, CA

We are at the Thousand Trails San Benito park. The park is outside of Paicines, CA, which is about 50 miles from San Jose. So we re really out in the middle of nowhere.We are surrounded by farm land......planted areas are growing vegetables but the there are some unplanted dirt areas. Some of the plantings are the grapevines for the wineries. Other than that there is not much here.

In the Google Earth map below, you will see a cluster of rv's where our park is located. You can enlarge the size of the map as well as click on the + sign to get in closer to see the rv park. We are in the section to the left since that is the only section where we can get cell phone and internet service. We found a spot that is under these huge trees that provide shade for us all day and we can look out at the hills and vegetation in the area. It is really a very nice park and we like it.


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We will be here for three weeks, until July 20. We spent the 4th of July weekend here; no fireworks due to the propensity of fires in the area. We did watch the Boston Pops on TV and so got our fireworks fix that way.


Love and hugs,
Linda and Barb

Pismo Beach

We left Rancho Oso and headed to the beach. So many people had told us that the Pismo Beach area was absolutely beautiful. It was only an 80 mile drive so we were there well before noon. Our plan was just to spend 2 nights there so that we would basically have a day and a half to see the beach. We found a campground that was a very short walk from the beach.

After we set up at the rv site , we took a walk to the beach with Bailey. This was his first experience with the ocean and it was so much fun to watch him. He would go out to the water and then when the waves came in , he would fun so fast. He could not figure out what was going on. Eventually, he decided that he did not like the water and just stayed away from it.

We descovered that this beach was a State Recreational Vehicle Beach. Cars and RV's are allowed to drive onto the beach. So, we went back to the campground and drove onto the beach. What fun!!! We checked out the area where the RV's were parked and decided that we will camp on a solid surface. RV's that park on the sand have to lower the air pressure in their tires to 20 psi. At this pressure there is less likelyhood that they will sink into the sand. There are all kinds of services available on the beach to help the rv'ers...........air stations to refill the tires when they leave, tow service to pull them out of the sand if they sink, wood sales for fires in the sand.

But we did go back and get the car and our chairs and spent that afternoon and the next day on the beach. That evening as we were eating dinner we noticed that the sunset was right over the ocean. So we immediately walked to the beach and watch a glorious sunset over the water.

What a wonderfully beautiful area this is!

We had a great time there and plan to stop again on our way back.