San Francisco RV Resort
Pacifica, California:
We only made it 99 miles up the coast! Don't want to do too much in one day!
Truthfully, we could have lingered in Moss Landing longer, as there seemed
to be much to see/do there and we only tried one of the famed restaurants
(by-passing The Whole Enchilada for our next visit). The day broke foggy and
chilly. I wore these things called pants! It wasn't so chilly that I
actually had to wear socks... but still, shocking just the same.
The drive today took us directly north on Highway One. Always fun in a car,
not always fun in a 40-foot bus dragging a car. The views over the
cliffs to the sea are awe-inspiring! Certain stretches of the 99 miles
seemed as we were the last people remaining on the planet, other times we
had terrible traffic. There is much congestion around Santa Cruz, but
otherwise the road is okay. We stopped at a pull-out where we could see
hundreds of harbor seals dozing on the rocks.
Harbor Seals
DT, on the rocks
A different (yellow) lupine on the shore
Our destination today was a huge RV Park(ing lot) just south
of San Francisco - the
San Francisco RV Resort. It is an unbelievable $60 per night, but it is one of a
very few campgrounds of any type near The City. Our site looks directly over
the ocean, so it is really worth the price. San Francisco RV Resort is just a short
drive to a
BART station and only 14 miles from downtown San Francisco. It was 60 degrees when we left Moss Landing and
we drove in foggy clouds all day, until we approached Pacifica and the
temperature rose to 74 and we enjoyed a very nice late afternoon looking
over the ocean.
Our campsite (read that "parking space") is so incredibly tight that we
cannot open our bays! There is no place to put the Honda and if there is an
earthquake tonight, we will end up in the sea... but we still are very happy
here because of the view.
Camping, San Francisco style
Tonight we walked down to the shopping district north of the campground. Here
you can find a Mail Box Plus place, post office, health food store, yoga
studio, produce market, meat market, Safeway, Chinese Restaurant, dry
cleaner, video rental, laundromat, pizza joint, tavern, barber, hair/nail
salon, fish & chips joint... well, basically everything a person would need
to survive. I suggest we just move here. We had a delicious pizza and a fun
time at Manor Room Pizza.
Manor Room Pizza in Pacifica
RV Park:
San Francisco RV Resort