So, we unhooked the jeep and got around the corners, then hooked it back up again. Now, we are getting better and faster at this, but it's a little bit of pain in the neck. It was easy getting back onto hwy 101 and before we knew it, we could see the Golden Gate Bridge.
It was fun crossing it and seeing Alcatraz and the city across the bay. When we got to the south end of the bridge we came to the toll booth.
It's been thirty years since I've been across the bridge and there was no toll then! But we paid the twelve dollars and took a leisurely drive through downtown San Francisco. Traffic was heavy (and stupid) but we made it through what seemed like ten thousand stoplights and ten million people and then we drove off of the map. We missed a turn and stayed on hwy 1 instead of catching 280 to 380 to 101. We stopped at the first town on the coast, Pacifica, and pulled into what we thought was the visitor info place and ended up in a motel parking lot. And nowhere to turn around. Aaaargh!!!!
Doug walked around the lot trying to figure out how to get out of there when the motel manager came out and offered to open the back gate and let us out the alley. It worked! And we didn't have to unhook the jeep again. So, we backtracked to hwy 280 to 380 to 101 just in time for the afternoon traffic jam. It was slow going for the next 35 miles, but we finally broke free and finished our leisurely drive to out in the middle of nowhere.
The San Benito Thousand Trails park in humungus and nice. But, it was dark and we were tired so we just pulled into the first spot we could find and parked. The park is probably only about a third full so in the morning we will find a perfect spot.
While we were kicking back relaxing, I felt quite a jolt and Doug (who was sitting out on the picnic table) hollered "earthquake"! Sure enough, we had experienced a 3.3 magnitude earthquake almost directly underneath us. Hooray for California.
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