Santa Fe RV Park (San Diego)

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 we are parked in the Santa Fe RV Park for the week.  It’s an older park which means the navigating and parking is a little tight and about a third of the sites are occupied by permanent tenants.  It’s also one of those park with free Wi-Fi that apparently never works. We received several different excuses: “Oh, didn’t realize it wasn’t working”, “they were just working on it”, etc. I checked it each day and it never worked.  That wasn’t the only negative. The park is sandwiched in between I5 and Amway tracks. Not in the distance but right next to the park. Which makes it very noisy. On the positive side they honored our half price  club membership for the week. They had a clean pool and spa and the utilities all work as expected including the cable TV which was just a cable sticking up out of the bare dirt.

Narrow streets but plenty of room for Ty.

The freeway, I5 is just behind us. It’s elevated so we get the full effect.

Next we are going to the zoo, without kids!   2010 spring travel MAP  

 

 

Santa Maria Overnight

It is now Monday, March 15, 2010 and we are at the Santa Maria Elks for the night. Our original plan was to arrive Sunday and spend two nights. We had reservations for dinner in historic downtown Guadalupe at the Far Western Tavern. Debbie’s folks took us there a month ago and I had the best Rib Eye steak I have had in a long time. But we stayed in Morgan Hill an extra night so we could drive up to San Francisco and see the Tut exhibit with Blake, Stacey and Brad. Blake and Stacey gave us all tickets for Christmas and we were all going decide on a day we could all go together. We all planned to go the previous Sunday. Saturday night Debbie looked at the tickets. She had been telling me to look at them for a week. We discovered they were vouchers and needed to be converted to tickets. As luck would have it that Sunday was booked. Fortunately the following Sunday was available as was everyone else. We had a great time although Debbie and I thought the Tut exhibit thirty years ago was more comprehensive.

Anyway since the Far Western is closed on Monday we decided to go back to Alex’s BBQ in Shell beach. They have always had great ribs. Well its not so great any more. First there was no antipasto plate. When dinner arrived it came without the beans it used to have.  The ribs were just ok. It appears they had been boiled and then just placed briefly on the BBQ. We had to make due with paper napkins during and after the meal.  The napkins shredded and stuck to our hands and the sticky BBQ sauce. The waiter said they didn’t have any wipes. When I was done I went into the bathroom to wash my hands. Guess what, no paper towel!  It looks like Alex’s is in trouble and cutting costs. One thing for sure, we won’t be back to help them out.

The Santa Maria Elks have a very nice RV parking with 50 amp service. You can see Horizon peaking out under the Elk’s head and across the lawn.

I’m slowly catching up to the present. Soon I’ll be real time.

Tuesday morning we will be leaving here and arriving at San Diego.

MAP

We’re On Our Way (Morgan Hill, CA)

Finally with everyone’s teeth problems repaired or removed we are on our way. The first stop is a club outing in Morgan Hill just south of home.  It’s being held at the Coyote  RV Resort along Hwy 101.  Ty walks by our club placard.

Saturday a local winery provided wine tasting in the club house.

Horizon is snuggled in at Coyote RV Resort under a blue sky.

Eating is our favorite activity at outings and this one didn’t disappoint.

Next the 2nd leg of our trip; to Santa Maria.   Travel plan map HERE