It has been too long.  I’m not great at keeping up with this.  I left off on Saturday morning after a night in Ventura.  We just kept an eye out on the great view, and stopped for a while Santa Barbera.  We cruised the beach for a while, ate lunch, and then got back on the road.  We arrived in San Luis Obispo in the late afternoon.  We went to see the new Chronicles of Narnia movie.  It was good, but theaters don’t leave me in the best of spirits, so I turned in early.

           We woke up early to see a few sights in San Luis.  We went to the Madonna Inn that had a few too many silk flowers for my liking, but was quite a sight.  We also had to see the bubble gum wall, to which Kasey made a contribution.  It just screamed germs to me. 

            Our plan was to travel up the Pacific Coast Highway, but a planning flaw on my part left us traveling up highway 101 instead.  The views were still great, mostly of vineyards.  We got to Monterey early and spent a few hours on Cannery Row, checked into our hotel, and then visited Dennis the Menace Playground. 

 

            There weren’t too many plans for Monday, so we got away a little later.  We went to a community called Los Gatos, which is apparently where a large majority of Silicon Valley’s money resides.  It was a really cute community with a Lamborghini dealership.  I think that says it all. We then went to meet a friend in Mountain View, another San Jose suburb, for dinner.  It was good to see him, and when finished we went right to our hotel in San Francisco. 

            The area is a bit sketchy, although only 2 blocks from union square.  We arrived at night and realized the next morning that the neighborhood improves drastically in the daylight.  The hotel is really cute, and the people have been very helpful and nice.