Tuesday, March 29: Driving to San Simeon to Camp

We decided last night that because it was raining so goddamn hard that we decided that we would just chill out after organizing 

everything and getting the van that we would stay home watch a stupid movie and eat loads of pizza. That was fun. Only thing open with dominoes in it is the best

 pizza but it is definitely serviceable. Which a large by ourselves she left two pieces and I left just one piece an eaten. We didn’t get up at 4 AM. I did get up 

at 4:30 AM but couldn’t wake Alice up so I said I screw it so we left later than we actually wanted  that was OK. As we drove we almost got on the five 
towards Bakersfield and Alice was like saying to me “no way I’m driving towards Bakersfield and the grapevine. We got off the road and figured out the rest of the way to get to towards  Ventura

  now 11:15 AM we just started at Starbucks. We had a hard time finding a restroom. But I asked Siri the closest gas station and pick one we were right 
on the way to so we’re going to get back on the one oh one. I’m gonna be driving. Hopefully it will cause my sister too much anxiety. It’s gonna be 

too hard to speed with the traffic the way it is. Actually the traffic was horrible on the 405 as Alice thought it might be. We should be getting there around 2:30 PM.    Well we 

took the coffee and we wrote up 154 off of one oh one because that’s with the GPS told 

us to do. It was not a good choice. It was a 2 Lane Rd. with lots of curves in mound and didn’t feel very fast. It took us an hour to get off the road but we made it 

we’re back on the 101. It’s now 1:51 PM or about 45 minutes away I think. It’s 
not 3:14 PM we just stopped at a place called Cayucos California. It’s right on the ocean and it’s a quaint looking town has a 60 field to it.

We just need to get out of the car and take care of business. Also the ocean looks real nice and it’s a really nice crispy day out here in Cayucos. We’re slowly getting close to 

our destination. Yes, we ran later than we were supposed to but it’s OK 

will make it there. This is a really pretty town. We walked up the pier and I 

got a lot of nice photographs there. We decided that if we took care of 

business we would get a bite to eat so I got myself a burrito and Alice 

got something else. We also got gas filled up here and we don’t know 

the next time will be gas. I think we’re about 20 minutes from the campsite 

so I would indulge in food before having a set up The tent. When 

we arrived @ the campsite we got a little confused because it didn’t look like her friend Kimberly was there at all. We did find the site after looking around and
 her friend did show up and we continue along our way to putting up 

the tent. Fortunately Alice was well-versed in putting up the tent since you 

put up this large tent by  herself recently this year. I had a little 

trouble with a spatial relations or the seeing things 3-D but we got up to 10 pretty 

quickly cause it was an all in once everything just went up as it was 



supposed to. After that we found a tarp or should I say Alice found a 

tarp and we did a MacGyver and put a tarp around the side so the wind would blow through. 

As a night war on the wind calm down and it wasn’t windy hardly 

at all by the time dark fell. We decided then once you get settled in to 



go to the beach nearby there was cell phone reception and the beach was so cool it had big rocks in the

 water and also all these petrified wood it was set up like a campsite or an 

experiment. It looks really like we are at an archaeological dig. It’s really hard to describe in words how 

funky and cool it was on the speech. I took a whole bunch of pictures and I really really enjoyed it. I 

think I have some real winners amongst the batch.  I set up the fire

 and almost made too much of a fire because her starter sticks light up lit 

up really fast faster than I thought. Kimberly Alice and I hung out at the fire and kept warm and talked a little bit. We were definitely ready to go to bed. The tent had blowup mattresses a blanket and a sleeping bag I had also brought a pillow so it was pretty comfortable and we crashed around 11 PM. 

Monday, March 28: Rain Camping Prep, Home Depot

Good day everybody. Today was one of the rare days that it was raining outside. It’s pretty dreary as bad as dreary San Diego gets. It’s

 also about 60° which is considered pretty cool here. There’s a nice stiff breeze blowing and Wesley stayed inside all day. We did a lot of talking

 and hanging out. I’m trying to plan a camping trip that are for invited Alice 
to up north of Los Angeles. There’s a lot of planning Alice had to do to even get started. A lot of it involves her dog getting a place for the stain make sure
that  food is available and all the shots are there that are needed.

 She’s been on the phone back-and-forth with these people and she’s doing a really

 good job. He’s able to squeeze in the kennel and get a waiver from one of the influenza shots. 

Anyhow, we decided that we would go do all the errands and pick up the rental car and pack up tonight and leave for Ventura and stay overnight in Ventura 

and then head the rest of the time up to the campsite. Oh yes I’ve been contacted 

through Instagram. Pats trying to figure out my computer that he bought from me.  

 I’ve been in touch with Murray about my trip to Idaho. It’s now 4:30 PM or the first leg of our errands to go to this camping trip. We first stopped The Courtyard at 

Carmel Mountain Ranch. There’s a Petco at this little mall and picking up that then we’re  Going to the kennel and drop the dog off. Will also get some

 extra professions for the trip such as clothes and charger in containers for water. It’s now 6:45 PM and we’re now heading towards the 
airport to pick 

up the rental car. It’s a midsize SUV. We first. Went to Ralph’s to get groceries, then we went to Home Depot to pick up logs and fire starter etc. Oh I forgot we went to 

Dick’s sporting good store to pick up tent sleeping bag and A blowup mattress so we don’t have to sleep on the ground.  Went to O’Reilly’s auto to pick up a generator. They had one more

 left after this one. I was at color room for that.  Well, the next trip was to the rental car place. This didn’t go as smoothly as the other portions

 of the preparation. First of all there was no direct way to park and get the rental and second of all we got the rental place, they didn’t have the car we ordered and then try to steer us to a car that 

would cost a lot more. We settled on a large van when we left. We have

 double insurance part one with the third-party and one with the rental company so that ended up bumping up the price anyhow. As I was driving out the rain started coming down really hard again. I’m hoping the rain dies down at 9 o’clock. It’s now 8:18 PM  we’re going to drive to Ventura and then stater hotel there.