Midweek Break

Mom went home to SF Monday and we decided to take a break for a few days. The Cambria area in San Luis Obispo county is one of our favorite places and only a couple of hours’ drive from home. This time we found a hotel in San Simeon, about 4 miles north of Cambria. It is the Best Western Cavalier Resort and is on the west side of Highway One. That means no crossing the road to get to the beach. This is also a dog-friendly hotel. No extra charge for the dog and the only rule is that he mustn’t be left unattended. This is the view from our deck, looking north.

After our morning walk, we had a good soak in the spa,

then went to breakfast in the on-site restaurant. The weather was great, blue skies and no fog, until about 11am; then the fog started rolling in and stayed pretty much all day. But, surprisingly, it rolled back out around 6pm and we had a really gorgeous sunset.

The hotel has three fire pits along the bluff above the beach, each with chairs for the guests to sit and watch the sunset. Tonight it was really windy which blew the smoke every which way, so we moved to a bench closer to the beach and I must have taken 50 photos. It was one of the best sunsets I’ve ever seen.

Cambria has a dog park at the north end of town. Master found out about it last time we were here, so this time we stopped yesterday on our way in and again today to take a break from checking out all the neat shops in Cambria. Unfortunately, the yarn shop that I visited in February is closed, hopefully temporarily. I did manage to find a quilt shop and bought some Insulbright for making potholders.

Then we drove up Santa Rosa Creek Road to Linn’s Farm Store to see what they had. We had driven by in February but they weren’t open then. We bought a few tasty items to take home and plan to stop at their town shop tomorrow morning to buy an olallieberry pie to take home.

Then we decided to drive down to Morro Bay for a fish dinner. Needing to work up an appetite, we stopped at the Cloisters Park which seemed to have a lot of walking paths. At one wildlife viewing point, thirteen ducks appeared as soon as we arrived. We didn’t have anything to feed them, so they eventually started wandering back into the reeds. Some of them had blue beaks which I’ve never seen before.

There were lots of folks walking dogs, big and small. This Irish Wolfhound was one of the former. The owner was not a small man despite what it looks like in the photo.

We had a very good dinner at Dorn’s Restaurant in Morro Bay, overlooking Morro Rock which we couldn’t see because of the fog. But by the time we finished the fog was starting to lift.

All in all, a very good day. Tomorrow it's up early for a walk on the beach, a soak in the spa and another yummy breakfast that I don't have to cook. Then it's home through Big Sur on Highway One. I much prefer driving north on this road - it's that much farther from the cliffs along the ocean.