Central Coast

Last weekend Dara and I took a road trip down to the central coast, staying in San Luis Obispo. The SLO acronym is appropriate, but that was just fine by us. Cal Poly makes it a college town, and it has a cute and busy downtown area with lots of restaurants, some of which back up on to the tree lined creek. The temperate SLO is flanked on one side by the hot wine country near Paso Robles, and the foggy coast on the other. On one day, we drove up the coast to Morro Bay, then up to the tiny town of Cambria, across through the wineries toward Paso Robles, and back. On the next, we went down the coast past AJ's old hangout of Pismo Beach, across to the even tinier town of Los Olivos, on to the Disneyland-like atmosphere of Solvang, and back. On the last day we had a glorious, warm, fog-free, convertible-top-down ride up the coast highway, stopping for lunch at Nepenthe and thinking of Mom's visit. Back home now, trying to plan another adventure. Pictures on Flickr, and I posted a video of the otters we saw in Morro Bay above.