Santa Barbara

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We boogied down the coast and got to Santa Barbara just in time for our meet-up with Ali’s parents. Somehow Ali and I have always managed to miss Santa Barbara. After one day I have to say that we’re really enjoying the place. The weather is gorgeous, the boardwalk is … Read More

Hearst Castle

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Highway 1 south of San Francisco is crazy beautiful, and actually a little easier to drive than it is further north. Which doesn’t mean it is an easy drive—in fact, one day we stopped in Big Sur after nearly three hours on the road with only a couple overlook stops … Read More

Back On Our Way

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Ali to the kids: “Papa did it, huh? The bus is fixed.” Ouest: “He wouldn’t have been able to do it without us, though.” Ali had been telling them all week that I needed their help. They were making runs to the store for me, staying out of the bus … Read More

Trial and Error

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Today was a long day of trial and error. Everything was ready, I thought, when I went to hook the battery back up. But then the starter began to crank when the battery cable hit the battery post. Later on I would find that this was because the starter relay … Read More

Wiring

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Ouest went to the dentist to check out the teeth that she nearly knocked out last week. X-rays showed everything is okay, though the dentist did predict the front tooth will be out in a couple of days. That tooth took a lot of abuse in the past couple of … Read More

Petaluma

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So the day after the fire I got to work labeling and tearing out the burnt up wiring harness. It turned out to be about eighteen wires, of which I was able to easily trace about twelve. The rest were burnt down to nothing and broken. But it was a … Read More

Fire

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We headed south today—for a little while. First we stopped at the grocery store where a guy behind us honked and yelled that we’d dropped a tube. I waved then quickly parked and jumped out of the bus to go pick it up. As I ran up I found the … Read More

San Francisco

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We walked over to the Larkspur ferry this morning and took the quick trip into San Francisco. In town for the day we decided to hit Golden Gate Park and Haight-Ashbury. First stop at the park was Stow Lake for a paddleboat ride. Somehow we got off our bus at … Read More

Sebastopol

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We just spent three awesome days with friends we feel like we’ve known forever, despite the fact that we only see each other every couple of years, and just about every time it is in a new country or state. They grew up California hippies, sailed the world (we first met … Read More

On the 1

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Today was another rain day. Oh, how we loathe rain. With nothing better to do we decided to just drive on a bit. We had spent the night in a state park along the Avenue of the Giants, so we continued there before hopping back on the 101. We eventually … Read More

Redwoods

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Slowly meandering south. Hiding somewhere nearby Paul Bunyan is a guy with a microphone, and from far up above the kids comes a deep voice saying hello, and having a short conversation with them. Ouest thought it was amazing, Lowe didn’t figure out what was going on. Ouest was still … Read More

Jack-O-Lantern

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Ouest has been taking almost as many pictures as I have as of late, but I have been terrible about getting them loaded on the computer and actually going through them. She’s been showing so much enthusiasm though that we finally sat down and began the process, showing her the … Read More