Shake, Rattle And Roll

Tuesday: I tinkered in the RV most of the morning leaving Big Sur about 11:30. The weather was a bit cloudy in the direction of the sun but dry and clear otherwise.


The river was flowing nicely. This was about 50 feet from my campsite.

I stopped at an overlook along the coast toward Monterey with a beautiful view of the water and rocky shore. I prepared breakfast of pancakes and sausage while I enjoyed the view.


Getting in to these pullouts is fairly easy. Getting out when your on the wrong side of the road is a challenge.

Next stop, Point Lobos State Preserve. I parked out by the rocks. There's no beach here but nice looking rocks. There are a lot of seals out on some of the rocks further out in the ocean. I couldn't get a clear picture today since I didn't walk out to the point closest to the colony.

I continued down to Seaside and looked around a while. Lunch/dinner was at the Grande Buffet, a pretty good Chinese buffet in Seaside.


I then moved down to the park near Fisherman's Wharf and got out the bike to ride on down to the wharf. I found a classic car show with a very good rock-an-roll band playing. Their version of Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman couldn't be distinguished from the original. almost. I looked and listened. The Nash above is one of my favorite older cars. My uncle Doug once had one.

The Morse Miner Woody Wagon above is cute. I don't think I'd fit in either of these cars but they are cute. I like the idea of Wood driving a "woody." I also walked out the wharf to see the seals then headed back to the RV as it was getting dark.

At the wharf, I determined that the whales we saw in Pismo beach may have been pigmy killer whales, pigmy north whales or one of a few varieties of dolphin. They had the dorsal fin but were all dark colored, no white? Never will know.

I headed on toward home on Highway 1 to Highway 17 and home. I did some window shopping on the way and at one of the shops in Los Gatos, about 8:05, I felt the earth move, quite a bit, in fact. We had a 5.6 earthquake, the strongest since the 1989 quake. Fortunately, I was off the road, not in the middle of a turn on highway 17. Nothing serious, no damage. I stopped for gas on the way home and arrived home about 9:30.