2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)

... spending the night at Livermore CA

(still the same trip so not changing months yet)

Breakfast has improved here. Used to be packaged rolls and donuts. Now they have eggs (?) sausage, a fridge with yogurt and waffle machines.

Before breakfast we went for a walk around the parking lot a half dozen times. This area is all businesses. No houses near this exit. And lots of trucks so even where there is sidewalk you are dodging trucks.

Most of the homeless trailers are different. Just one coach style bus at the end of the street is the same.

We leave the hotel about mid morning so that we will arrive in Monterey about 11 AM to eat. We had planned on eating at the Red ... something, but as BB is looking on line she sees the food we have gotten in the past was breakfast. And they only serve that until 11 AM.

So she looks at the #2 place in town and we end up going there instead. Also a little house (?) with a few tables. We were able to park on the street a couple of blocks away. Looked like we could have parked much closer on a different street.

Food was good. Got to watch a deer walk down the street while we ate. Finally thought of taking a picture once it was a ways away but can still tell it is a deer.

Saw more deer at a cemetery near the lighthouse. Saw them both coming and going today. Then saw more in front of a school as we were leaving town.

The beach we stop at doesn't seem to have a name there. It is near where singer John Denver died and there is a memorial rock for him. People have now placed shells on his rock since the last time we were here.

When we got there, we walked mostly along the street as the beach is close to the road. Saw dozens of some time of ground squirrels in one place so someone must have just feed them. Not very crowded today. At one time the temp was 59 and misting so not walking weather for the locals.

Then we sat in the car for a while and watched the waves. I dozed a little.

Then we took another walk the other direction. Finally timed that one on the way back. So the second beach walk was about 45 minutes. Plus the earlier beach walk and the early AM walk today.

When 3 PM arrived, I called the bus dispatcher a few times until he answered. No bus today and he first suggested I do not wait around. He didn't seem to be in a rush this time so we talked a few minutes and by the end of the call he said to call him back in the AM (?)

We do plan on staying the week but likely not the weekend. After that call it took us a while to decide where we were going to go and what we were going to do. Now that we have time to do other trips, I realized that the RV near LA can not be moved until Friday. The truck in Reno is listed as a straight (box) truck but looking closer, other places it is listed as a tractor, which is a much different ride. And the rental units that there are usually plenty of are -0- while we are here. There is some in MN :( right now.

We finally decide to head to Livermore so we can switch cars and get one for half the current daily price. Hotels are cheaper close to here, but if we get one near Livermore then we can spend part of the day in the hotel instead of checking out at 7 AM ... the car needs to be back about 9 AM.

After looking at a few places to eat, we end up at a Black Bear in Gilroy. Good food, good huckleberry malt. More than I needed, but good. By the time we are done eating the traffic has mostly cleared.

The only place there was still a backup was where a Tesla truck had stalled in the travel lane. That was the first one I had seen. Then we saw a second one just as we were to pull off the freeway by the hotel. The second one was a center drive. Not sure if they all are.

There is one stretch of non-freeway coming from the south where we did and there is currently road construction. First I was in the lead when it was one lane and then the slow guy when it was two lane. I was almost going 15 over the limit and cars were passing me like I was standing still.

We did drive past the buses. 10 buses in the (mostly) done area plus another five for LA. The partially done lot still has 100 plus but most of the LA buses are gone now. Two of the 10 look like Duluth buses. I find out when I look at my computer that the only bus driver I am in contact with is on their way to Duluth MN.

... now if they had just staying in HI a couple of more days, I might be on my way to Duluth already.

We check into the Quality Inn in Livermore. No major plans for tomorrow.

Load board

US - 110

IA -0-

MN - 3

WI - 1