Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Day 44 Saturday, April 14, 2007

Vandenberg AFB, CA to Monterey – 192 Miles

Today we decided to leave Vandenberg and head on up the coast to Monterey.  We had listened to the weather radio and heard that the winds were going to be gusting again on Sunday so we decided to leave today, a day earlier than we had planned so as to avoid the issues with driving a high profile vehicle in high winds!

The weather has turned a little chilly here in California.  We are having daytime highs only in the mid-50s the last few days and today was no exception.  Today as we drove we had to drive through off and on light rain but by the time we reached Monterey the sun was out but it was still cool outside.

We checked in at the Monterey Pines RV Campground, another nice military RV campground.  Since we were 2 days ahead of our current reservation here we had to hope for the best on getting a space without reservations today.  They did not have any space in the regular campground; however we were able to “boon-dock” without any hook ups in their overflow area, an old soccer field.

We started up the generator for some power, fixed microwave pizza and had a salad for dinner tonight.  The campground and overflow lot are sitting right next to the military Monterey Pines Golf Course and just across from the Monterey County Fair Grounds and tonight there is a live band playing in the fairgrounds amphitheater and we have “front-row” seats for free!!

Tomorrow we are going out to explore the Big Sur coastline going down California Highway 1; we’ll check out the fisherman’s wharf and the Monterey Aquarium and then later in the afternoon we’ll take our bikes and ride the bike trail that runs along the beach.

posted by Richard @ 11:12 PM