“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

We stayed at the Lopez Lake Recreation Area for a weekend and found a great family friendly park with lots of amenities and activities. This lakeside campground on the California Central Coast is only 20 minutes from Pismo Beach, but it feels miles away among the tall oak trees and grassy hills.

After getting our truck back from the repairs shop we headed out with the intention of traveling home in two days only to have more delays and to have to rearrange our plans yet again.

Welcome to Big Sur, a 70 mile stretch of highway between Carmel-by-the-Sea and Cambria California that is world renown as one of the most beautiful drives in North America.

We went camping at Lake Cahuilla in La Quinta, California. We had a great time watching the pelicans on the lake, hiking in the desert, and checking out the Salton Sea and the Joshua Tree South BLM lands for possible other camping.

In our 6 days on the California Central Coast we saw an elephant seal rookery, thousands of monarch butterflies, we fed ostriches, enjoyed the beaches, and found the little mermaid in Solvang, CA.

We left Hope, BC and drove our RV to California as fast as we could. We hitched up our trailer in record cold temperatures to head south in search of warmer temperatures and less snow. What we weren’t expecting was waking up to snow in California!