[tcb] West Coast Trip
- From: Ronnie Hughes <fracdogii@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:29:28 -0700 (PDT)
Well gang,
So far so good on the west coast tour.
I'm sitting in my hotel room in San Francisco answering a few e-mails and
taking it easy. My son, Alex, and his buddy, Drew are downtown somewhere. I
left them a few hours ago at Tower Records after eating some very good Chinese
food down in China town. I gave them a $20 for a cab and a business card from
the hotel in case they can't find their way home.
Man a real shower was nice.
Picked up Alex and Drew last Friday in Dallas at about 4:00 PM. Met Alex's
new friend Lanni, who has a nice assortment of "big" tatoos and three pierced
things sticking out of her lip.
Anyway the dad in me just popped out there for a second.
We drove all of Friday night and stopped west of Albuquerque and slept at a
rest stop for a few hours. Got back on the road after some breakfast.
We made it to LA about 10:30 Saturday night, drove around and ended up in
Malibu. We stayed Saturday night at the nicest RV park I've ever seen - the
most expensive too, but what a view! Had Ramen noodles for dinner.
Like Dan and Katrina reported from their San Diego trip, Bays and Vanagons
are everywhere. At the campground there was a nice 78 bay. On my way to get
some milk Sunday AM I noticed they had a nice water pipe (hooka) sitting on the
picnic table next to their bus. On my way back from the store, two of LA's
finest were parked in front of the van. No handcuffs, but lots of discussing
going on.
Sunday AM after some eggs and sausage we were off again to Los Osos, home of
GoWesty. What a beautiful drive up the PCH Hwy 1. Arrived at Morro Bay about
sundown and saw the most spectacular sunset I've ever seen.
Los Osos may be named after a bear, but they have the biggest raccoons I've
ever seen. Came right up to our campsite and ate some dog food somebody had
left the night before.
Monday dropped off the van at GoWesty to have some work done and moved the
camping gear to a loaner van. We made our way up the coast on PCH 1 stopping
whenever the urge hit us.
Monday night we stayed on the beach at New Brighton. More Raccoons, sky was
clear so sunset wasn't as nice as the night before.
We got up this AM and drove the rest of the way to SF. Walked back and forth
across the Golden Gate Bridge. Checked out Fishermen's Wharf. Tried to get a
hotel, but $300 for a room is a little high for me. Found a cheap hotel about
6 blocks off the wharf and that's where I am now.
We start back tracking tomorrow, down the 101 to Los Osos. We will pick up
our van sometime in the afternoon and will start heading east. We will camp
somewhere on the way to the Grand Canyon. We are planning to stay at the Grand
Canyon on the south ridge Thursday night, then on to Alburquerque for the Buses
and Balloons Friday night. After the dawn ascent Saturday AM we are headed
back to Big D.
1,836 miles from Houston to Los Osos. Saw gas prices from $1.99 in
Childress, Texas to $3.05 in LA. Good times had by all.
By the way, XM Radio is worth $10/month when you are cruising.
I'll post some pictures when I get back to Houston.
See you at T@TP.
Ronnie
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