Santa Barbara's Rancho Oso

We drove from Hollister to the Santa Barbara Rancho Oso Thousand Trails on September 2nd. We have been keeping an eye out on purchasing another motorcycle to replace the scooter we sold last April. We needed something mid-size, larger then a scooter but smaller then the 1800 cc Roadstar we used to ride. We decided on a Kawasaki Vulcan 900. We found a good deal on one in Lompoc, Ca on Craigslist while we were up in the state of Washington. The seller held it for two weeks until we could get down here to look at it. We liked it at bought it when we got to Santa Barbara.

2008 Vulcan 900

The picture above is on our site at Rancho Oso. We got Site #1 which is an end site on Terrace Level One. Easy to walk to the pool and Jacuzzi.

We met Crystal, Cynthia and of course Gracie at the Santa Barbara Zoo.

Santa Barbara Zoo

We spent the day and had a great time. Gracie loves checking out all the animals (including grandma and grandpa)!

Gracie enjoying the zoo

Here we are in the Aviary. 

Birds in the trees

We spent three weeks in Santa Barbara spending alot of time with Crystal, James and Gracie. We are now leaving to go to Palm Springs Thousand Trails. It is Scott Blankenbillers birthday coming up and they will be with us for a week to celebrate! 

That's it for today,

God Bless,

Brian and Patty

Russian River and San Benito Thousand Trails

After leaving Klamath River RV Park we headed to the Russian River Thousand Trails in Cloverdale, Ca.

Russian River

We were going to stay for 6 nights at Russian River. Patty's Sister Suzie drove in from Middletown to visit us. She was only going to stay for the day, but after not seeing us for such a long time decided to spend the night with us. It was great to see her and wonderful to see the sisters get goofy together!

The day after Suzie left we went to Bodega Bay which was made famous from the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds". It was an interesting place to visit, and some of the buildings still look the same.

Bodega Bay

We were not impressed with the campground and because there were no sewer hookups we decided to leave early after just 4 nights, We initially intended to go the Morgan Hill Thousand Trails, but it also did not have Sewer Hookups. It is also a fairly small park, and since Labor Day would have fallen during our stay we realized it would have been JAMMED tight! Instead we decided to go to San Benito Thousand Trails near Hollister and stay a whole week. We have been there before and know the area.

San Benito Thousand Trails

This is a huge park and although it was a holiday it was still only half filled. We were fortunate to get a corner spot with 50 amp power. Because of the drought in California there is very little grass here! We had a good time and this was a good layover spot with pool until we could get to Santa Barbara's Rancho Oso which is our next stop!

That's it for now,

God Bless you,

Brian and Patty