Day 10 and 11(actually posted morning of Day 12)

Day 10 I took note of the odometer this morning, it was a 2320 km trip down here.  The plan is to take the interstates on the way back, so it will be interesting to see how much shorter the drive is. After the obligatory morning stint at the playground, we headed into San Luis […]

Day 8 and 9

Despite the weather being perfectly adequate and the proximity to San Francisco being desirable, there simply weren’t any suitable campsites in the vicinity.  They were all too far from the beach or town, or were worse than the one we stayed at last night.  At least it had some bark mulch, a few of the […]

CALIFORNIA! An update because we finally have WIFI not on our phones!

Day one: January 11 Jill was up until 2 last night finishing up things that had to be done before we left, I packed it in at a more reasonable hour of midnight.  This did not prevent Ru from waking us up at 6:30 by jumping on us as per normal. We had initially thought […]

Why Drive to Tofino indeed

As much as I love where we live, there are times that you just need a change of space and location.  For some reason on the Island that place has always been Tofino.  Maybe it’s the waves and all the dynamic motion but we go there at least once a year and always in the off […]

Holy Harvest Batman….

So, the harvest here at the Farm is going well, so well that we have to do some more tomorrow after finally calling it quits after it got too dark to see what we were picking. Our intrepid band of neighbours/retirees/friends (and one random fellow who came with another friend) gathered at 9 this morning […]