Route 55: 3/1/22

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Thursday, March 31: Early Start. Leaving the Campground

Well since I had to get up and take care of business for the second

time at 5:15 AM I just got up and stayed up. I walked around a little bit and then

it was light enough to go towards the bridge near

the ocean where there’s reception for my phone. I updated my last two days of blog postings and took some pictures. Some came out nice.

It’s pretty chilly it’s about 48° out and I’m gonna

go back to the tent soon. there’s no reception at the campsite at all so you have to go out here

towards the road or the bridge to get reception.

I wrote to some people and got rid of my junk email. Do you know the usual things I do I think we’re heading back sometime today

It is now 7:28 AM Pacific daylight time. It’s 9:47 AM. Alice is packing up taking down all the camping paraphernalia. Kimberly laughed

and I had my coffee which I really

needed. Alice said it was OK for me to go out closer to the bridge where there’s Internet access. I let Kimberly know would be

at least another half hour or 10 AM before we would be leaving

the campsite. It’s warmed up a

bit and the coffee is kicking which is good because I’ve been up for almost 5 hours

already. It’s now almost 11 AM. We’re almost done packing. We’re

going to head back towardsAlice’s. I believe we’re just going to drive straight back. Kimberly is going to Cambria which is the

big town around here.

Anyhow we ended up meeting @ Leffingwell Landing State Park. Alice and Kimberly did some plein air painting

and I took a little walk and had an appointment

over the phone which went very well I think. I think we’re narrowing some things which is good. After I

got back, I ran into Alice got myself a Diet Coke and Alice

encourage me to try some plein air on my own. I was very nervous about it I’m just really unsure of what I’m going to be doing and

where do you even start but she was very encouraging

so I put my hand at it. I enjoyed it but at the same time there’s Laroi inciting that stirs up and me forever to get a reason except it’s

something new that I don’t know what I’m doing.

Everybody left about 2 o’clock Everyone met who is in the plein air

group suppose and Chihuahua paintings pier I actually did it tiny little plein air

looking like Mark Ratko according to Alice. She really encouraged

me. Anyway, we got going and it is now 4 o’clock and we’re about halfway to Ventura. I fell

asleep with my drink in my hand I was fortunate took it before it starts all over the place we stopped at a rest

place I filled up the gas is $6.50 gas and away we went. We then went past route 154 which goes up the mountains 🏔. We went that

way on the way to San Simeon. It was a painful drive with lots of curves and no shoulder. Next we pulled over so Alice could make a business

call. Interrupt house got it decent person to help her out with her issue. Tomorrow

she’s going to go down to La Jolla and take care of that. We

ended up driving to blah blah to meet Kimberly and get a bite to eat around 5:30 PM.

Alice wanted to go to Ventura but we stopped at an earlier stop.

The food wasn’t bad Kimberly had an extra burrito with Molé sauce on it. It was

tasty I also had a coffee because I was really just tired. I knew

it dozing off twice on the way while Alice was driving. We just

decided we go forward and just head straight home. I think that was a really

good move. I just wanted to go home to clean bed a shower and some sleep.

I really needed to go back to civilization. The ride went very smoothly

and the 405 didn’t have a lot of traffic. We arrived
back at her place about 10:30 PM. We just left the stuff in there Van came home and talk to little bit and then I just ran upstairs to shower and go to bed but

I ended up just passing out and going straight to sleep but I’m so damn tired. Shower tomorrow will feel really really good.

Wednesday, March 30: A Trip to Harmony California

On my first night of camping I slept pretty well. I did wake up a little stiff and a tad grumpy but I got over that pretty quickly. Thank

God for the blowup

mattress because sleeping on the ground would’ve been really hard on me. I got up around 7:30 AM so we got out of the tent and

fix myself some cereal and some

chameleon cold brew coffee. Boy was that needed. We then got set up and get ready to go to Harmony for plein

air painting. Alice was

doing the plein air. Along with your friend Jennifer. I of course was going to take photographs of the place. Well on the way there, we ended up turning up the

wrong road and going to a dog candleput on the way there so some beautiful sites. We were right along top

of some rolling hills and it was very pretty. All the hills are green right now because during the summer and winter they’re brown.

We picked a perfect

time to come here. We then entered harmony population 18 and it was such a cute little town it was unbelievably gorgeous out here I just went nuts with the

photos. It’s

such a pretty scenery around here perfect place to paint outdoors. Also we had perfect weather today it’s not completely sunny

but it’s just very high clouds at this point. It’s

basically a 10 minute drive from the campground. It’s really close to the

campground which is cool. It is now 12:04 PM and they actually have a

food truck type place open here. It’s basically a couple hundred yards

of town that’s about it the rest of it is cows and hills. It’s very scenic Alice’s without

a group of people along with her friend it turned her onto this. It’s

now 12:11 PM we’re taking a lunch break we decided to buy to get some food at this little outdoor restaurant called the harmonious

moment utterly awesome melts

and reset. Not sure what a reset is but I’m sure I’ll find out on Google or Alice will tell me. I’m getting when I think it’s called Cubano melt. Well, that sandwich

was really pretty tasty had had a lot of ham in it which is predictative of what Cuban cucucuisine is. I chop down that sandwich pretty

good it was very tasty. A

lot of people really liked the sandwiches there. It was good to have a nice

filling lunch in the sunshine. The one with big breast but it wasn’t too bad. The

plein air continued for a little bit. After that Alice and I joined a small group

of folks to hike at the harmony headlands. It’s about a 1.5 mile track

and at the end you get to see the ocean. Well I was up for that

because I’ve never seen anything quite like this and I figured it

would be some good exercise. Well Alice Kimberly and I continued but

another woman stopped going about 1/3 of the way through. She’s having

a rough go of it from the stuff that happened to her. Anyhow we kept on trucking

and it was a long walk it was pretty rocky it was not steep since the past

wiggle around Rollinghills. These hills are big or at least they look big

because there’s no trees or they’re very small trees. That’s that’s what they have in the West Coast

. Alice keeps telling me that we have the same thing in the East Coast

brittle covered up by trees. It’s hard to fathom that for me. Anyhow

we completed that I can both Alice and I were pretty big. We just sat in the car

caught up with our phones since there was no reception during the hike.

After we relax a bit we went down to this little town we went to yesterday. We

went to the supermarket pick up extra iced extra diet Cokes and

greens. The guy who helped us out was pretty cool. Alice said some crack about

can we have the receipt in case you need to return the ice. That was really funny. After we did that we came back to the campsite after

we put all the ice back in the ice cooler. We said the web campsite got some more warm clothes on and

headed out back to Harmony to do plein air painting in the evening. It’s

another way of painting because light is a lot different. The wind did pick up and it’s a bit gusty here but it’s very nice. I just tried to get

some chips and some hummus

since I’m a little hungry. We’re gonna have Alice’s pasta salad

when you get back and I’ve already set up the fire pit so we can just lied about

warm fire. It is now 7:07 PM. Alice made a lot of progress on her painting

really fast it’s now 7:41 PM and she’s just trying to beat the darkness

and the sunset was officially about 10 minutes ago. We got here before a

lot of people did and I’ve been updating Yesterdays blog posting
and today’s blog

post and I still had some Internet coverage. Alice’s goal was to paint as much as

she came before it got dark so she did the 90 minute planner chart

challenge even though there wasn’t a 90 minute challenge. More people showed up.

This included a group that Victoria invited who were transients. I heard about that story after

you got back to the tent. It was all pretty smooth I got a lot of good pictures including

of the sunset. Well it got dark and it was time to pack up. People really

liked Alice’s work. Packed up her stuff and then went to the car and sat in

there and warmed up because it was pretty chilly outside for sure for sure. Kimberly

is waiting for us so we got going and headed back to the tent. We then let up

the fire I had some of the famous pasta
salad and it was time to go in the tent and get ready to sleep. I have a feeling I’m not gonna sleep all that great because