San Francisco, Cupertino, Los Altos, California

July 8 through July 11 - we have spent the last few days a the most glorious RV Park, Coyote Ranch RV Resort. It certainly is the best park thus far and should we be back in this area we would most definitely book time here. This particular park has a bike trail that spans about 18 miles along the river and is teeming with wildlife. We were warned that there is at least one Bobcat that has been documented on the trail but in our rides we did not see him/her. We did bike every day although not the entire trail. Our purpose of this visit to California was to see Shirley’s brother Ray, his wife Beverly and daughters Deb and Linda (brother Gary unable to get time off). Ray, Bev and Deb came over to the RV the first day we were here for a gabfest. Friday Shirley, Les and I headed out to San Francisco - Deb was kind enough to lend us a vehicle - we had a ball even though we limited our sightseeing to the Wharf area. Alcatraz was clearly visible from the Wharf and we enjoyed the famous claim chowder in a sourdough bread bowl at Bourdans. We couldn’t leave SF without headed down Lombard Street (aka Crooked Street). Since the car was a sportscar Shirley was relegated to the front seat and I think she was only half looking on the way down the hills. The biggest bonus today was that California had a “furlough” day for state workers so the traffic was practically nothing, about an hour drive into the city right to the parking garage, in and out. After a quick nap we had an old fashioned family night at Deb’s house in Los Altos. Deb lost her beloved Graham last year and he is missed greatly - but we were fortunate to be visiting at the same time as Graham cousins, Bryan and Pauline. What fun to meet them and listen to their English accent - they were fun folks. This morning (Saturday) finds us up before 6 and headed down the bike trail. We had to stop at one point to allow a deer to decide if he was going to cross in front of us or scurry back into the wood - he chose the latter and we discovered on the return trail that there were 3 of them having breakfast together so that was pretty cool. We are off to our last visit with Ray and Bev at their home in Cupertino, California. From there we are headed out Sunday morning to Eureka, CA to enjoy the Redwoods. The Music Box storefront photo is for Fran F.