Terry & Wayne fly out for a visit.

Betabel RV Resort, San Juan Bautista, CA

Henry W Cole State Park

Terry & Wayne made it out successfully (and we assume back, too.)  The highlights:  Henry W. Cole State Park, Pebble Beach's 17-Mile Drive, a little of the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH), and Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park.   Pinnacles National Park didn't work out (too hot & crowded), and we never made it to Frog Lake at Henry W. Cole State Park.  But f you look at the pictures, I think we did OK.  Hopefully, they'll feel like they had a trip out vs. feeling like it was just a dream when they're settle in back at home.

Hollister Observatory 

If you decide to come this way, we highly recommend the 17-Mile Dive and a walk through the redwoods at Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park.  Visiting the state park will ensure you get a taste of the PCH, too.

On the home front, we finally ditched the (piece-of-junk) Verizon 4510L MiFi.  I kept an eye on the 4620L, but saw it got mixed reviews from those who use it the way we would.  It was better, but I routinely read of people having issues with it on the various forums.

Spanish Bay along 17-Mile Drive

Finally, Verizon brought out the 5510L.  The reviews for it were mixed, also.  But I found a trend where those who were having issues either bought a bad one and the replacement worked fine, or they really had unrealistic expectations (such as: "I've watched two movies and I'm over my 6GB limit.  This thing stinks!  I'll never buy one again!)  Yep, I'm sure that Mifi is why you went over your data limit. For those of you new to this data stuff, you can't buy enough data to download

and watch a bunch of movies without exceeding your data limit. (You have to buy your data if you're using wireless.)  And the fact that you were able to download the movies and watch them means the MiFi is working just fine.

Anyway, our contract ended Friday and no one has swapped out a MiFi quicker than we did on Friday.  And it's working great.  I've set up one browser's home page to be the MiFi setup page so I can easily check its status.  And the transfer rates are better than tethering to our Thunderbolt.  So we're now good on MiFi.  Maybe we can even start streaming the SFCC services, now.  Well...there is that data issue.

So that's it for this week. If all works well, we move Monday to the Petaluma, CA KOA for a few days & then head north for the coast and more redwoods...unless something changes.

Oh, and don't forget to scroll down for more pictures.  Later, David

Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park

Pfeiffer Falls at Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park

Big trees...

See?