

| Subject: | Re: Looking for trip planning suggestions |
| From: | Roger Whittaker |
| Date: | Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:11:57 -0700 |
dear travlin man with family while at gowesty you will no doubt feel a little peckish try Celias Garden Cafe Inc 1188 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos, CA 93402-3252, United States should you get your west back late in the day you will want to camp the night at Montana de oro state park great eucalyptus forest on the road in and crashing surf waves all night "cars go past my window like the waves down on the beach" you may want to go to morrow bay and see the Gibraltar of the pacific but the rest of morrow bay is sea shell sales outlets .....:p also while in Los osos there is a bakery .... not an OMG we must go bakery .... but a good one called carlocks which is located in a mall on Los osos road or drive ...and if you have to walk everyWhere go to Jimmy bumps pasta house give our best to Lucas if you see him at gowesty ... regards On Friday, October 28, 2011, Mark Tuovinen <aksyncronaut@gmail.com> wrote: > We are getting to closer to committing to our plan of traveling > the Southwest for approximately 4 weeks starting in mid-December. We are > planning on shipping our van to the Seattle area next month and flying down > to pick it up around December 15th. Several List Members have generously > offered a place to store the van until we arrive and I hope to make the > decision on which one will work best for all involved shortly. Once we > arrive at the van we will load it and hit the road as we have to pick up our > daughter at Humbolt State University on the 16th or 17th. We plan to travel > south from Humbolt as stops at either(or both) Van Cafe or GoWesty are in > order as the van needs new bumpers and maybe a few other items. From there > we plan on being somewhere in Arizona most likely Tucson, Scottsdale, or > Sedona by Christmas to be with family and/or friends. On the return leg of > the trip we have to drop our daughter back at Humbolt, our 9yr old son at an > airport for an escorted flight home, stash the van someplace in storage > until Spring, and get on a flight to Las Vegas for a Conference. This will > of course happen without a hitch as we all know that a Vanagon will never > let its operator down nor leave them stranded on the side of a highway. If > you were wandering the Southwest during this time of year where would you go > and what would you do? I am also looking for one or more books I have seen > mentioned on the List in the past that identified camping sites(BLM and > others) etc. If anyone knows the titles of any of these books please let me > know so I can track them down more easily. I had them at one time but they > are lost to an old email address that i can no longer access. I would love > to meet up along the way with some of the List members that I only know by > their Posts so if anyone is interested drop me an email and we will see if > the schedule works. > > TIA > > Mark in AK > `87 Westy Syncro > -- roger w From Proverbs: Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a servant who becomes king ... ---------------------------------------------------------- Explore printed work at: http://www.prliving.ca/ View the growing list of video work at: http://www.youtube.com/user/LastonLastof#g/u http://www.prpeak.com/articles/2010/11/29/multimedia/video/doc4c62e5f80d228504902172.txt
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