Day 48 Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Monterey, CA to Travis AFB, CA (between San Francisco and Sacramento) — 153 Miles
On our way to San Francisco we again initially drove up California Hwy 1 and were amazed at the acres and acres of vegetable fields. We had spoken with a local person yesterday and found that this area along Hwy 1 was considered the vegetable garden of California; rightfully so. The strawberries we purchased were absolutely the sweetest ones for this season. We had already experienced strawberries at the Strawberry Festival in Florida as you my recall in an earlier posting; however, we’d have say the California berries win out over the Florida ones.
We saw many workers in the fields and even the Diamond Organic Farm which Sylvia was familiar with since we have purchased their products in the past. The soil was super dark, not like some of the red soil we are accustomed to in parts of Virginia. We also noticed that artichokes were in season. The plants look like big thistle bushes. We have enjoyed artichoke hearts marinated but never prepared fresh artichokes ourselves – so we just had to purchase some and got on-line for some suggestions on how to prepare them. We decided to steam them and they were excellent; hurrah - for trying something new!
Sylvia has always been interested in recycling; we’ve noticed that recycling in the various campgrounds vary from aggressive to non-existent – which surprised us somewhat. Since we are mainly staying at military bases we thought recycling would be more established throughout these campgrounds. Hurrah for the Commissary at Travis AFB – they charge for bagging in plastic bags. In the San Francisco Bay area there is a big movement underway to save the Bay from the thousands and thousands of bags that wind up in the bay killing the fish and the turtles. A fellow camper involved in the movement informed us that fish and turtles will eat pieces of plastic bags thinking it was food – the pieces of bags then get logged in their throats resulting in a slow death by starvation.
San Francisco area is one of the places we had planned on staying at least a week – which we have really looked forward to. We have gotten into a certain routine, and we can honestly say we always leave a location wanting to stay some extra time – but the road calls and our itinerary to get Sylvia to Oakland fly out of back to Virginia on April 25 is firm. So staying here at Travis AFB for a week sounds like fun. As I mentioned we have had certain routine by now…look at the road ahead for the next destination and the time to reach the destination determines our push off time. The longer the distance the earlier we want to hit the road. We now know 5 to 6 hours is our maximum daily travel time with the RV. One constant we learned… it always takes longer to get there than planned!
Once at the new location we set up and then usually have to head for the Commissary or grocery store as the small refrigerator does not allow us to stock up as we are used to at home.
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