Blog catch-up

Well, hello, everyone.  It's been awhile since we last checked in last.  Remote places and lack of Internet have kept us from blogging.  So here's a sum-up of the last couple of weeks:

We stayed in Morgan Hill from the 22nd of November until the 8th of December, and it felt like it was two months.  Morgan Hill Thousand Trails definitely does not make our favorite places to stay list.  But we did meet some wonderful people there, and we did have some good times.

We had the best day-trip ever, and it was to Monterey and Carmel By The Sea.  We LOVED it there, and it IS on our list of top places to return to.  Here are a couple of pictures that Dave took.

This one is of the Point Pinos Lighthouse, right past Monterey.  It was so quaint. 

This is a picture is a part of the Pebble Beach Golf Course that we saw as we were walking on the beach, down the street from the restaurant we ate at, Il Fornaio, the same restaurant we loved to eat at in Seattle.

Here is the beautiful sunset in Carmel.

And here is a picture of our new house on the beach in Carmel!

Yeah, just wishful thinking.  :)

From Morgan Hill, we drove to San Luis Opisbo and stayed at the Pacific Dunes Ranch.  We hiked along the cliffs of Bluffs Trail in Montana de Oso State Park.  It was really pretty.  We think we saw some whale waterspouts out in the ocean, but, unfortunately, not close enough to see the whales.

We also visited Morro Bay and the big rock.  That was really cool.  You could see the ocean pounding the big jetty they had built to protect the city, and we saw falcons on the big Morro Bay rock.  We also saw tons of seals in the water.

From San Luis Opisbo, we drove to Rancho Oso, in the foothills of Santa Barbara, right into a major storm that everybody has probably heard about that hit the coast, the likes of which California hadn't seen since 2009!!!  We had 50-mile-an-hour wind gusts and rain like we've never seen or heard before, and, of course, that brought with it, you guessed it, our second power outage.   I know California needs the rain, but, jeez, give us a break on this weather already!  But that's okay.  Dave and I had a great time, hunkering in and waiting for the storm to pass.  We brought in our slideouts, just to make sure the wind didn't tear off any of our awnings.

The next morning, this is what we awoke to!

We didn't get to see much of Santa Barbara, but we'll come back to this area again to visit.

We then drove the longest distance we have driven since we began this journey, 200 miles, to where we are now, Wilderness Resort, Menifee, CA.  We really like this place.  It's huge, with over 500 RV spots.  But, since we can't just pull into a place and have just a normal day, we were just getting  ready to settle down this morning and enjoy watching some football when, you guessed it, the electricity went out!!!  This time we have no idea what caused it, but we sure are getting suspicious that it's us!

Here's a picture of the welcoming committee in Menifee:

Okay.  So hopefully we won't take such a long time to update the blog.  We are heading to Pio Pico, near San Diego, to have a great Christmas and New Year's Eve visiting Kari's family.