First day on the road. Things did not go exactly as planned.
Apparently camping takes several months or at least days of advanced planning.
The campsite that we arrived at said that we would have had to book months in
advance to get a spot. We tried to hit a few other sites along the way, but
they were either full in advance or booked out earlier in the day and we came
up short.
The car at least is holding up well. Despite the fact that
both of us have trouble with first gear and not burning the clutch a bit when
starting out (not me) or when on a steep hill (me) it seems to be a good choice.
However, driving in SF may not be the best idea if we want to keep the
transmission in the car for a long period of time.
The change in scenery has been pretty dramatic. Going from
desert scrub and severe drought to Pacific forest. On the road today we saw a
herd of zebra’s and then a pack of elephants (seals). We were kind of surprised
to see a zebra, let along a herd of them. Not really sure what they were doing
or where they came from, but they were penned in along the side of the road,
maybe a dozen or so. Then later on down the road there was an elephant seal
rookery with about 2-3 dozen elephant seals lazing on the beach. Only one or
two actually moved, but they were quite large and would be impressive to see in
action, or at least moving.
Marina’s dictation: nothing to add.
we ended up at Ramada in Monterey. It worked out fine, just not what we were hoping for... Didnt think that camp sites would be in that much demand. I guess we are going to have to look over the weekend to see if the sites at Moab and Tahoe are going to be available or not.
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