Maxima

We left LA today for a few days in San Francisco.  Specifically, blips wants to go to the Blue Angels air show which is over the bay and should be quite spectacular.  I mistakenly thought it was a four hour drive to SF but instead it is FOUR hundred miles.  So, I got the four correct but in the wrong category.  Ooops!  We started out rather early (for people on vacation) at 9:30am and pulled into a Days Inn in Salinas, CA at 4:30pm.  We are 100 miles south of SF and stayed here because it is less expensive and we can be there by noon tomorrow anyway with time to explore a little before we booked a hotel in SF.  BUT we like this Days Inn so much that we booked one in Oakland for 3 days.  Now we won’t have to search tomorrow for a place to stay.  Done deal.

Here is a picture of monkey(the first one of my collection.  And he has no name, just monkey) playing one last game by the pool and sitting on the stairs that went up to our room. 

We stopped on the way to SF at San Luis Obispo at an Applebee’s.  I asked for a no smoking table.  SHE SAID ALL OF CALIFORNIA IS NO SMOKING!!! What the heck?  At our hotel with no address, we had to sit at the pool to get wi-fi.  We have been smoked on with cigars and as many as 9-10 cigs at a time.  Now we find out they are all criminals also.  They can smoke in their room but not at the pool in our air.  It is California law.  I thought they had a clean air act!  Our motel room here in Salinas is really nice because there is no smoking in any room at any time.  So it has never been smoked on and then perfumed and called clean. 

Anyway, I woke up this morning to chanting.  I thought maybe those boys actually were Jehovas Witnesses, since we saw them going door to door.  And they were having a service.  But I also heard them using the F word last night and that did not fit.  So, I opened our door and listened.  It was a motivational coaching meeting.  Some guy said something and they said HARDER HARDER, as if to remedy their missed quota the day before.  And then they chanted “I can do it” (also twice).  Those poor kids are hooked up with some creep that is using them to make money.  I knew it was something weird.  I wonder what they get out of it.

Tomorrow I am about to go to SF for the first time.  I am so excited.  The scenery on the way here today was breathtaking.  The mountains and the ocean and sometimes the combination in one view.  I can’t wait to see what it looks like tomorrow in SF.   They have muffins for breakfast here.  I am going to count the blueberries.