On The Road Again

Monday: (01/11) We advertised our old electric dryer with Freecycle. freecycle is a website where one can get rid of perfectly good stuff free to the recipient. In this case, the dryer was working perfectly even though it was 20 years old. What can go wrong with an electric dryer that can't be cheaply repaired? We just wanted a gas dryer because it would be cheaper to operate. So we had the old one hanging around, unused for the past year. too good to haul to the dump and besides we're too cheap to want to pay the dump fees. A person called right away after the notice was placed on Freecycle and they agreed to pick it up tonight. It took them a while to get to the house, about 10 pm but they took it and hopefully they will be happy with it We re happy it found a new home.

Tuesday: (01/12) Up early to drop Dawn off at the train. Breakfast from the Hong Kong Bakery, of course. Lou was busy doing her final packing. Our neighbors car was ready for pickup from the garage so we ran over to pick it up. I hooked up the toad and we were off about 11am. We had some rain last night but it was just overcast all the way down to Pismo Beach. We stopped for lunch at Scramblez Restaurant in Morgan Hill. We shared a chicken fried steak breakfast.

We stopped on the way in downtown Paso Robles for a walk and a look around an antique store and a thrift store. We pulled in to our campsite and were setup by 5pm. Unfortunately, the toad would go into gear so it will have to be looked at in the morning.

Our winter trip this year is late and will likely be a little different. By now we're usually settled into our camp in Quartzsite Arizona but this year we're so late getting away we won't bother rushing down for the big RV show. We'll do our usual moseying, this time down the coast starting with our favorite camp here in Pismo Beach. From here we'll head on South toward San Diego. It's raining pretty good today, causing a little warmer weather than we've experienced recently. Hopefully we will find the preferred warmer weather and I can get back into my retirement uniform of short pants.

Our first mission was dinner. We walked downtown, about 8 blocks, to the Pismo Beach Fish And Chips Restaurant. We shared a fish and chips dinner with cole slaw and fries topped off with a piece of deep fried cheese cake. It rained rather well after our return to camp.