Oceano, CA

Population: 7,260 Elevation: 30'

This will be a week at the beach.

You can't see the water, but you can see the dunes. At night, you can hear the ocean if you go outside.

Here is sunset and sunrise.

The trip here was better than the last trip. the 580 and 680 freeways are terrible with cracks and potholes. The 101 highway through San Jose was also terrible. This time, the 101 south was only bumpy in spots. We didn't knock anything off the walls.

This RV park is nice. No dog park for Brie though. Our only problems here is that we are next to the bathroom/laundry room and our neighbor has 2 dogs for Porter to bark at. There is sand everywhere because of the beach so we will be vacuuming that up everyday. I hope we can find a path to ride the bikes down to the beach. I don't think our bikes can make the direct path over the sand dunes. My old fat tire bike might have made it.

In old news, while we were in Gilroy, we went to Monterey and drove the 17 Mile Drive. It is a scenic road that goes along the coast. We stopped at a few places to look at the view.

There were seals or sea lions on the rocks. They weren't close enough to tell the difference. Pebble Beach Golf Club is on the drive.

After the drive, we stopped at Dust Bowl Brewery. I think the actual brewery is in Turlock, this place wasn't big enough to have a full on brewery. I had a Taco Truck Amber and a Dirty 30 Pale Ale. The pale ale was the best one I had. I bought a 6-pack for later. Jan had a Golden Ale and a Orange Mango Wheat beer. The dogs had fun. A little girl was fascinated with Brie and kept coming over to pet her. Porter wasn't as happy because they had a corn hole game set up and he didn't like the thumping noise when the bean bags hit the wood.

It was cold in Gilroy. One morning, we had no water because our hose froze. I had to disconnect it and swap it out with another hose. I don't know if it ever got above 60º while we were there. At night it was down in the 30's most nights. We had 2 blankets and a comforter on the bed to keep warm at night.