Spring Break Days 4-6

After our exciting trip back down Highway 1 we stopped in Paso Robles for the night. We actually stopped at a Walmart first and picked up a few things and then made it to Wine Country RV in Paso Robles.

We were only there for about 18 hours and I didn't manage to get ANY pictures! Ugh. But here's one from google that accurately represents Paso Robles. It was BEAUTIFUL! (I find myself using that term a lot the last few posts.)

This RV place had all the amenities we needed but was definitely more geared toward the…older crowd. There were A LOT of rules. Rules about the grass, rules about who could be and where, etc. 

It did however have honeysuckle on the entire perimeter of the park and so the place smelled amazing! They had a really nice dog run and an off leash area so that was nice. But, Cory and I were the youngest couple there….by probably about 30 years. 

After our quick stay in Paso Robles we made our way to a KOA in Lake Isabella. It started raining and got really windy on the way over. So, we didn't really get out of the camper much at Lake Isabella. It was COLD! We had been excited to get there beforehand because their website advertised a lot of fun stuff like free ice cream on Fridays, pancakes on Saturdays, etc. However, then we got there they told us that none of that stuff starts until May. Boo. That would have been nice to know. So, we watched movies and played games and did a puzzle. And...went to bed at 8:30. 

We did a lot of this at Lake Isabella

Carter and I did a puzzle

Our campsite

The playground

Spring Break Days 3 and 4

We stayed at Fernwood Resort in Big Sur. It was beautiful! A great 'woodsy' location with a stream and big redwoods everywhere. The camp wasn't very crowded so the boys had free range of the stream.
This location is where we learned we had accidentally overfilled our gray water tank (and it started leaking at about dusk). And of corse this location only had one dump site and we had to pay $20 to use it. :(
This is also where we had the GREAT DOOR DEBACLE and Cory cussed for an hour while he couldn't get our camper door open. Our best guess is that something had shifted or broken and it made this bolt thingy stand in the way which prevented our door from opening at all. We couldn't take the door off the hinges because they were welded. After Cory had declared that the whole thing a piece of s**t and that we were headed home, I was able to open it with approximately seven minutes and a flat head.

The boys loved the stream

The back of our campsite

Our campsite

burgers for dinner! 

Newman would love a burger

Viv was a little upset that she wasn't allowed to go play in the stream by herself with the boys

Carter found another great climbing tree

The three dangles over the stream

These are coming south along Highway 1. Hwy 1 was INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL. I had completely underestimated California in the beauty department. I mean, the Mojave desert isn't fantastic. LA at least has some green, and that's nice - but that place is a jungle. We've been to San Fran (via Hwy 5 and 99) and it was nice, but I'd never seen this. It is amazing! You have to see it first hand. Its awfully windy and high, so be prepared to go slow (especially in an RV!) for lots and lots of miles.

Our cute little rig

Clay likes to pose for the camera

Cory and Viv

Stunning!

Finally convinced Carter to smile nicely for me

If you look closely, you can see a little bridge we went under

We saw this place coming up Hwy1 but weren't able to stop in enough time to take pictures. So, on the way home, I woke everyone up and even made Vivi do her hair, because this place was gorgeous and I wasn't going to miss a photo op like this!

I think I got a few decent ones.

Look at that view!

There's our Minnie!

My handsome hubs

Pelicans, going 50mph. They were SO CLOSE! and they kept up with us for a mile or two!

Next up: Paso Robles!