Two weeks already?!?

It’s kind of hard to believe we arrived in San Luis Obispo on April 22nd. How has so much time passed already?

I certainly can’t complain. It’s pretty awesome here. Jacques took us to the nearby town of Orcutt to play disc golf at Waller Pines Park.

Waller Pines is actually 36 holes! We played 18 and called it good. But what we played of the course was a ton of fun. I especially liked these signs at every tee – we never got lost looking for the next hole.

We’ve been running a lot too. Michael, Allison, and I all went out to a place called Irish Hills Natural Reserve for a big one. Almost 8 miles for Michael and Ali, and I clocked in with 6.5 miles.This is a fabulous place to run.

Michael and I took the dogs to Avila Beach – specifically, to the dog beach at Avila. Two separate people asked us if Elvis was a rescue. Which, of course, he is. Was. I mean, we did rescue him…15 years ago. Why were people suddenly asking about him now? Bailey’s a rescue too, and nobody asked about him. Then I realized that it was Elvis’s new shaved haircut. You can see most of his bones now, so I guess people thought he’d spent his life chained to a tree or something, instead of being spoiled rotten since 2002. We had to explain that there’s nothing wrong with Elvis – he’s just old.

After wearing the dogs out at the beach (it took a while with Bailey), we went to lunch at Mersea’s in Port San Luis, opting to sit outside and watch the water. We weren’t the only ones out enjoying the sun.

Mersea’s offers a sweet view of the Avila Beach area.

Lots of small boats passed by, but the best was these two SUPs:

I wonder if Bailey would hang out on a stand-up paddleboard? I’d bring Elvis but people might think we were torturing him or something.

Michael and I also took a little drive down to Oceano, to see the dunes. While it’s only $5 per car to drive onto the dunes (which are right on the water), we kind of got that out of our system back in Texas. So we walked, which definitely put us in the minority.

I did get some pretty good pictures, though.

Our next step might just be the hardest…. it’s time to move on. We’ve still got places to visit, new things to see. Our first stop will be the Yosemite area. That might be an adventure in and of itself, as the California snowpack is at about 170% of normal right now. Tuolumne Meadows isn’t expected to open until July. Hell, parts of Yosemite Valley are flooded right now, so we’ll just have to play the camping situation a little loose.

Stay tuned!