We left this morning about 11 am or so from Santa Barbara. My wife turned back in her car because she forgot something but I didn't sleep well last night and even sipping coffee most of the way I was barely staying awake so I just kept going. However, I stopped for gas once and for food another time and to top off in King City and to get some windshield wiper fluid there too. So, after all that she still arrived only about an hour after I did back home on the northern Coast of California. The weather was sunny except for Santa Barbara which really fogged up this morning but was starting to burn off pretty good by about 11 to 12noon as we drove north to Buellton. At Buellton she realized she had forgotten something important so she went back to get it in Santa Barbara whereas I kept moving forward because I was barely staying awake even with coffee driving today. So, I would sip a little coffee and as long as my mind was awake enough I just kept on going and stopped for food in Astascadero and then gas and windshield wiper fluid in King City. The bugs are coming out. They aren't as bad as they will be in June, July and August but if you don't use wiper fluid it's hard to see through all the bugs on the windshield lately too. The Wild Oak trees all along 101 were about as green as I have seen them and then now since the 1990s like 1995 and 1998 the last time we had this much rain in California. Of course it's an El Nino year (because we got over 20 feet of snow even at about 6900 feet a Bunny Flat on Mt. Shasta and even more further up maybe up to 30 to 40 feet. There is a new big Avalanche my friends were telling me about so I might ski up to the new one like I did the big one above Bunny Flat if it is close enough above the paved road up to Bunny Flat on Skis later this week. But, for now, it's just nice to be home on the northern Coast and through driving for the day. But, the purple Lupine is now out in addition to yellow wild flowers and golden poppies on the drive north so this is great too.
The Golden Poppy is the state flower of California by the way, probably because of the Golden Gate Bridge and the 1948 Gold Rush and all that.
The highest temperatures today was near Paso Robles and Atascadero. I saw about 82 degrees Fahrenheit as the warmest on my car thermometer and my wife came through about an hour later and it said 84 on her thermometer in her car. Usually we take only a car or my truck to Santa Barbara but since we were going to be there 2 weeks or more we decided to take 2 cars in case there was an emergency or someone else needed to borrow a car while we were down there as we had relatives and friends visiting while we were there.
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