Mo' Pie
| Daily Summary | April 25 |
|---|---|
| Day | 14 |
| Start | Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz, CA |
| Finish | Veterans Memorial Park in Monterrey, CA |
| Today’s Miles | 57.9 |
| Trip Time | 03:28:05 |
| Moving Average | 33.8 mph |
| Speed Max | 67.0 mph |
| Time Moving | 01:50:53 |
| Odometer | 1047.5 |
| Location | https://share.delorme.com/Judice |
Highlights
- Robin worked out again in the state park’s beautiful “Redwood Grove”. So peaceful. Robin felt Lucy’s presence during her run.
- Ross cooked a big mess of eggs and bacon. It makes mathematical sense to cook all 12 eggs: 3 eggs for Ross + 3 eggs for Robin + 1-2 egg for Mr. Spock + 1-2 egg lost to the bottom of the skillet/cosmos = 8-10 eggs. Since it makes no sense to put 2-4 eggs back in the fridge because our plastic egg container fits 12 eggs. Stay with us here, if we buy another carton of 12 at the store, then how do we store 16 eggs? So we MUST cook all 12 eggs. Since Ross likes eggs, he eats the excess eggs. He considers it his patriotic duty as an American.
- We stopped at Gizdich Ranch in Watsonville for pies made from their own farm’s berries. The bakers were busy making pies at this favorite stop for people passing through. We bought 5 slices of pie, including apricot, strawberry-rhubarb, raspberry-blackberry, Dutch apple, and raspberry-ollalieberry-dwoleberry-Dutch apple. We had the apricot pie tonight and it was delicious.
- We lunched at Phil’s Fish House in Moss Landing, CA. Wow! What a great find! The restaurant sits in the harbor and sells fresh fish from the docks. The restaurant side prepares fresh seafood in large portions. Robin’s cioppino was loaded with clams, mussels, dungeness crab, calamari, shrimp, and cod in a tomato fish broth. The portion was so large we took it with us and finished it for dinner. Ross had the Manhattan clam chowder and red snapper spiced with jalapeño, mushrooms, and lemon-butter. So good!
- We scored a terrific campsite on the hillside in Monterrey, CA’s Veterans Memorial Park. Central to just about everything, we like the location and the wooded campground. We’ll stay 3 nights.
Lowlights
- It seems colder at a given temperature, say 40 degrees, than it does in Bend. Could it be the moisture in the air?
- This evening was so windy we huddled for cocktails and dinner inside “The Appendix,” our privacy tent that hangs from one of our awnings and is good protection from the elements.
- While Ross was using his iPhone app “Beer Buddy” to scan various barcodes on beer bottles in Safeway, in order to find the most highly rated craft beer on the shelf, some guy walked up and grabbed the last six-pack of the most highly rated one off the shelf (just as Ross was putting his iPhone in his pocket). Damn! P.S. Ross walked away with a six-pack of Lagunitas Maximus IPA — his second choice.
Observations
- Mr. Spock seems to be in the groove of the trip. He has breakfast and old-man walks at sunrise. Soon after, he wanders back to the Jeep and stares at the door until we lift him into his bed in the back of the Jeep. At 3:30 PM he gets up for dinner followed by more sloooooow walking and a couple of throws of the ball, then hangs out with us until he wanders back to the Jeep for bedtime. Sweet little old man.