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December in California has not been a good month. My younger sister Darcie lost her fight with breast cancer on the morning of December 9th. She had been heavily medicated for pain for a week and on this morning she opened her eyes, squeezed the hand of her twin sister Dee Dee and her husband Ed, then she left us. She fought long and hard but in the end she was ready to go. On a beautiful Saturday morning all her friends and family held a very nice service off Newport Beach to say goodbye. She was loved and will be missed.
I had noticed a problem with one of our LR slides so we started calling around to see if we could get it looked at. I started in Riverside county, tried San Diego and ended up with an appointment in Paso Robles. It seems the further south you are the longer the wait for a service appointment. We drove five hours north to Paso Robles and our appointment was over in less then an hour. They found a screw had backed out and was cutting a groove into the bottom of our slide out. I'll see about getting the groove repaired when we go to the factory in May.
Since our appointment only took an hour we had some time to kill since we had estimated it would be in the shop a couple of days. While checking the map I noticed we where very close to the coast and Cambria, CA. When I was 17 my friend Bob and I took a bicycle trip up the California coast from Garden Grove to Cambia and back. We spent six weeks on the road, sleeping on the beaches and in campgrounds. It was a very memorable trip and here I was, 34 years later, only a short distance away. I couldn't resist. Joan and I traveled over to Cambria then attempted to retrace our route from Cambria home to Garden Grove. The coast was still beautiful but as expected, in 34 years, things had grown up. We spent three days traveling down the coast. I took allot of pictures and enjoyed visiting the places I remember from long ago.