Late Night

Another quick one.

After the stop at the cafe with wi-fi, I continued on down the road until I hit San Simeon.  Unfortunately I did not realize that San Simeon and it's adjacent town are both huge tourist hot spots.  Therefore, I drove around for almost two hours trying to find a hotel with vacancy.  I made phone calls, and went through the list in my GPS, which by the way I could not have survived without.  Thank you GPS!  At one point, I was ready to drive another twenty miles south to look for hotels in another town.  Thankfully, before I committed myself to that decision, I turned around on the road, went back to San Simeon and decided to drive down one tiny street that I had yet to explore.  The first hotel on the road was full and I almost resigned to the fact that I would have to spend the night in my car or search for a campground in the dark, but the second was open!!  I thanked my guiding Spirit and proceeded to check in and crash and watch some TV.  It is worth noting that I had slightly anticipated searching for a place to spend the night, and had made sure to procure my meal before my hotel hunt.  

So tomorrow I am up early to drive back to Big Sur to eat breakfast.  Afer my meal I will driver further north to Santa Cruz to spend the afternoon and night.  Finally on Monday I will return to San Francisco to pick up my father from the airport and then Tuesday we hit 

THE TRAIL...

goodnight

- paul