Tuesday morning (3/25) found us headed to breakfast at the Red Rooster Cafe in Lake Isabella. One great place for breakfast and we filled our 'tanks' for the day of driving ahead.
As we were breaking camp, Roger discovered that we had not made the drive through the canyons without a scratch (as we had first thought). Sure enough, way up high, we have our first 'oops' ! Just a minor blemish, and if you have ever traveled that road, we are lucky it wasn't worse. The trip 'out' is much less scary and treacherous and most of our day was spent on flat land driving through miles and miles of farm land. Almond and pistachio trees, orange trees, grape vines; then when we crossed over the mountains headed west towards Santa Cruz, there were garlic, strawberries, artichokes and brussel sprouts.
I don't mind going up the mountains . . . it's the going down that makes my insides turn to jelly! Roger keeps telling me 'just take a nap', but that just doesn't work for me. The beautiful scenery helps, though. As we drove, I mentioned that the hills had a 'glow' about them. As we got to them, we discovered that part of the 'glow' was the reddish dirt showing through the sparse grass, but the real 'glow' came from large patches of vivid orange California poppies in full bloom. Just gorgeous!
We were greeted like 'family' when we arrived at the Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay KOA. We had worked with the manager, Sally, when she was at Niagara Falls, NY - and it was good to see her. We'll be here 3 days, using this as a base as we do a small neighboring park just 15 miles south in Moss Landing. After we finished up at the Moss Landing KOA, we headed to Gilroy to the one and only Super Wal Mart in the area. Had no problem getting there, but when we headed back to the campground, Roger programmed 'Sylvia' (the GPS) to guide us home. Well, I'm here to tell you, he doesn't follow her directions any better than mine - and we had a very scenic route home. (At least he couldn't blame me for it!) :>)
Moss Landing - home of Phil's Fish Market & Restaurant. It's 'the' place to go and we enjoyed a relaxing dinner with Sally. Luckily we went for an early dinner, for by the time we left the line was out the door, and it is not even a weekend. A bit too chilly to eat outside with the live music, but a pleasant - and delicious - evening.
Tomorrow we'll do the review here and then head north about 40 miles on Friday to Pescadero (Santa Cruz N/Costanoa), where we will be camping with just Highway 1 between us and the Pacific Ocean.
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