Trip up the California Central Coast

Picking blueberries on the way to Cambria

(on hwy 101,  30 minutes north of Santa Barbara)

Eating blueberries in Cambria

Beach at San Simeon

(great drift wood and rocks to collect)

Moonstone Beach tide pools at Cambria

Sea Otter looking for dinner

(we watched this little guy break open shells on his stomach while lying on his back)

Walking the Estero Bluffs State Park

just north of Cayucos

(355 acres of grasslands and beach to ourselves)

Finding a way down to the beach at Estero Bluffs

Beach at Estero Bluffs

Byron hanging onto a rock at the

beach at Estero Bluffs

The pier at Avila

(we like to get up early before the crowds show up)

Sage

18 inches of winter and spring rain has been good for the Cleveland Sage in my garden. It's a relative of the native Black and Purple Sages.

Quiet Memorial Day

This Memorial Day we went to the local school to let Betzi run. We usually spend a quiet day together on Memorial Day. This doesn't feel like a day for partying and drinking.

Betzi Having Fun

Los Padres National Forest

While spending a few weekdays in Ojai we decided to have a picnic in the Los Padres National Forest. The mountains of the forest border Ojai on its Northern flank.

Carrie always has a picnic blanket ready.

Why, you ask, were the kids not in school? Since you asked then let me tell you.

Thanks to the problems created by our elected officials over the last three decades our kids were given a week off from school. Instead of firing teachers they closed school for a week to save money. Do we fire teachers or do we provide less education for our children? The dumbing down of America is in full force.

Yours truly and Carrie.

  

Carrie

Since the Reagan years our country has been actively exporting American jobs to other countries. Now we are importing not jobs but minds. Americans are being dumbed down and minds from India are filling in the gap. A dumbed down populous is less resistant to the evolving corporative government that has taken over our democracy while we play Nintendo and "go shopping".

Better then TV.

In response to the deplorable state of our educational system we did what every good American does, we ignored it and took a vacation.

What kid or mom doesn't like a waterfall?

Byron and Leili.

The road back home and to reality.