Awake: 6:55am Temp 36 sleep 6+52 fog--- then sunny overnight @ Lodi, CA.
After a medium sized cereal breakfast, I climbed the ladder & cleaned the dew off our slides, & then retracted them while Kathy returned the modem & DSL Ethernet cable to the campground office. That high-speed Internet worked really well for our Apple computer.
We left the Flag City R.V. Resort, drove 1/8th mile across the street, & topped off our motorhome tank with 146 gallons @ $2.92 per gal. Then, @ 12:15pm, we continued southbound on I-5, arriving @ the Santa Nella R.V. & M.H. Park @ 1:40pm.
Today's travel: 80 miles 1+39 time 13 gal used 6.4 mpg 49 mph avg speed.
In March of 2004, we spent (4) days @ this campground, visiting places like Hollister, where I talked Kathy into going for a glider ride....which she didn't like; then the town of Monterey Bay, where we visited the huge Aquarium & were mystified by the Aquatic life that is in another world.
The next day, we visited the towns of Gilroy, Watsonville & Castroville & ended up in Salinas & went to the famous Steinbeck Center & Museum. We spent over (2) hrs going thru the unique displays & dioramas &; suddenly realized...we were only ½ finished.
We hustled thru the last half of the center & then drove over to the town of Carmel, walked around town where lots of upscale shops & unique bungalows were seen. We even looked for Clint Eastwood...to no avail.
Then we found our way to the beach & Pacific Ocean where we had someone take our picture. Both days were long with late returns in the dark.
This time, aside from visiting Bob & Mary Lou next week, we haven't made any touring plans...yet?
Dinner: (surf & turf), tuna steak & pulled pork, rice & a mixed salad.
Evening movie, we finished watching: "The Great Ziegfeld" with William Powell, Myma Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, etc. Spectacular, immensely entertaining biography of flamboyant impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, with Powell quite dashing in the title role. However, Rainer (as Anna Held) is stunning, and won an Academy Award; her telephone scene is a classic. Also won Oscars for Best Picture & Dance Direction. 1936. Fantastic story; you don't want to miss this one.
Lights out: 12:26am.
After a medium sized cereal breakfast, I climbed the ladder & cleaned the dew off our slides, & then retracted them while Kathy returned the modem & DSL Ethernet cable to the campground office. That high-speed Internet worked really well for our Apple computer.
We left the Flag City R.V. Resort, drove 1/8th mile across the street, & topped off our motorhome tank with 146 gallons @ $2.92 per gal. Then, @ 12:15pm, we continued southbound on I-5, arriving @ the Santa Nella R.V. & M.H. Park @ 1:40pm.
Today's travel: 80 miles 1+39 time 13 gal used 6.4 mpg 49 mph avg speed. In March of 2004, we spent (4) days @ this campground, visiting places like Hollister, where I talked Kathy into going for a glider ride....which she didn't like; then the town of Monterey Bay, where we visited the huge Aquarium & were mystified by the Aquatic life that is in another world.
The next day, we visited the towns of Gilroy, Watsonville & Castroville & ended up in Salinas & went to the famous Steinbeck Center & Museum. We spent over (2) hrs going thru the unique displays & dioramas &; suddenly realized...we were only ½ finished.
We hustled thru the last half of the center & then drove over to the town of Carmel, walked around town where lots of upscale shops & unique bungalows were seen. We even looked for Clint Eastwood...to no avail.
Then we found our way to the beach & Pacific Ocean where we had someone take our picture. Both days were long with late returns in the dark.
This time, aside from visiting Bob & Mary Lou next week, we haven't made any touring plans...yet?
Dinner: (surf & turf), tuna steak & pulled pork, rice & a mixed salad.
Evening movie, we finished watching: "The Great Ziegfeld" with William Powell, Myma Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, etc. Spectacular, immensely entertaining biography of flamboyant impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, with Powell quite dashing in the title role. However, Rainer (as Anna Held) is stunning, and won an Academy Award; her telephone scene is a classic. Also won Oscars for Best Picture & Dance Direction. 1936. Fantastic story; you don't want to miss this one.
Lights out: 12:26am.
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