Another Amazing Weekend

This last weekend we went to Half Moon Bay.  To a fairly new RV Campground at Cameron's English Pub on Hwy 1.  It was a basic park, a little rough, not paved and they are not finished building the bathrooms and showers so currently there are port-o-potties.

BUT, the surrounding area is beautiful.  There are all kinds of trails to the beach, I think you could walk for hours and stay on trails, and you are close enough to get downtown walking or biking.

We arrived on Thursday and the the park was very quiet that day and Friday.  Saturday was another story.  Down the middle of the park, which is a big rectangle, there are spaces for tent camping.  And boy are they popular.  My husband said it was kind of like pitching a tent in the Walmart parking lot, you pull your car up and pitch your tent next to all the other cars in the row - pretty funny.  There were all kinds of campers.  Lots and lots of kids, I think maybe it was a baseball team of something, bikers, birthdays, large groups and even one guy camping alone - if you can call being surrounded by 100 people camping alone.

Ok and although the hiking was beautiful, I did almost step on a garter snake and I did find a few tics (ICK), so be sure to be careful ... but oh the views -

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Here are just a few pics from the weeks so far with Pearl:

This is from Casa de Fruta where we spent 4 days just hanging out and relaxing.

These were from the site out of our front window when we stayed at Saratoga Springs right up Hwy 9 towards Santa Cruz.

Here we have our tootin around town transportation.  Since this image was taken I have bought a bike that is much lighter so I can lift it up to the rack easier.

And THIS is our very very content Road Dog!

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Last week we spent my days off at Uvas Canyon. It was so beautiful and I am feeling motivated to continue my Turtle Trekking blog that I started so long ago.

Like Steve Martin exclaimed in the movie the jerk, the phone books are here the phone books are here, recently I just as giddily exclaimed, the license plates are here, the license plates are here.   Wohoo, who ever thought a pair of personalized licence plates could make you feel so happy.  It took forever to get them but now that they have arrived I feel like we are really really for real doing this.

We have been to several beautiful places in Pearl so far.  I am so much more excited and content with this lifestyle than I honestly ever thought I would be.  The adjustments have been minor and the ease of the life has been major.  Cooking has been a breeze once I got use to the oven.  I have no complaints about shower size or kitchen size, in fact I love how little space there is to keep clean.  The one thing I thought I would hate was the dumping task, but it turns out to be a very easy process that doesn't bother me at all,

Another thing that has really surprised me is how good I have been sleeping. We thought we would try to put our mattress that we owned before into Pearl but it turns out that it mattress that is in here is amazingly comfortable.  So I find myself doing something I've never done before and that is sleeping past 7 o'clock in the morning.  Its thrills my husband but I'm not sure about it, it makes me feel like I'm sort of missing part of the day.  Yesterday and today I didn't get up until after 9:00.

We have quite a few places around Palo Alto, Mountain View and Sunnyvale that we park at for a few days then we move to another spot.  That aspect of it was something that my husband was worried would bother me, but it doesn't at all.  Most of the places are very quiet and not really near houses, so we don't disturb anyone if we have to use the generator for a bit.

When we went out for a walk last Friday we actually had a deer run in front of us, not even 10 feet in front of us, Inca found it extremely exciting, something she had never experienced before.  We saw quail and wild turkeys. And it smelled wonderful there. It came from these lovely small yellow wild flowers.

Here is an image of my husband sitting next to the creek that was basically our backyard.

I hope that now that we are starting to really get out and go places I will be better at posting here.

Safe trekkin