Here we are California!!

Ok so we made it!!! We just knew when we hit California we were in store for sunshine and warm weather.  But when we hit the border of Cali the only thing we saw was  MORE SNOW!  By this time we were tired  of snow.  We had seen enough of the white stuff.  We were ready for sunny warm beaches.  Although I do have to say the snow covered mountains of California are beautiful.  The snow just seemed to sparkle.   The way the snow piles up on the green tree branches is just adorable.  It looks like a perfectly snow iced tree.  Just too cute!!!!!!

When we crossed the line we were stopped at what looked like a toll booth, instead it was a agricultural inspection booth.  They questioned us on what was in our trailer and asked us if we had any plants.  I guess you can't bring your house plants into California.  Luckily, I don't have a green thumb so I didn't have any plants. 

We stopped at the welcome center to pick up lots of Cali info.  The building was an old train depot.  The whole little city was filled with old western buildings.  Have you seen those little snow covered villages that people put out at Christmas time?  That's what this little city reminded me of.  It was sooooo cute!  

But we came for sunny warm beaches!!  So on we drive toward the coast.

On into Cali the landscape was rolling hills with a backdrop of blue skies.  

These hills were sometimes covered with cows.  These are mountain cows. Funny thing, they look just like the cows we have back home.  It was kinda cool to see Holstein cows standing on the side of mountains. For those of you who do not know, Johnny's family raises Holstein cows.

Our next challenge was to find a camping spot near San Francisco.  We arrived in Cali a few days earlier so that we could visit Northern California.  Our goal was to see San Francisco and Yosemite.  We called around and found a campsite right on the coast above San Francisco.  Arrived, and got the camper parked only to find out their Internet was down.  We had no cell phone service and no Internet.  Trent was still doing school work at this time and having Internet was a must!  So we decided to pack up and  travel closer to San Francisco to find a campsite with net or at least cell phone service.  

So we took California's HWY 1 down the coast. This would have been a great drive IF it had not been a little winding cliff road and the sun was going down fast.  So again we found ourselves on scary roads.  Have you ever seen pictures of the CA coast line where a small convertible car is twisting and winding along the coast line?  Well that is where we found ourselves.  That brings a great picture to your mind, well take out the convertible and insert a Dodge Durango pulling a 20 foot box trailer.  Not so great a picture, not for us anyway it was quite a scary drive.  Although we were amazed at the view.  It was so majestic!  The sun going down made it all soooo romantic.  If only it were Johnny and I in my dads red T-top 1976 corvette! We had about 15 miles of this.  We were kinda in a hurry to get off this road before it got dark.  But there was only one way in and one way out and NO turn around spots. We finally made it to the end of this winding road!  So on we went to find a campsite.

Look at that road! Right on the edge!

This was a picture of seals on a rock out in the ocean.  Cool site!! We don't have these in the Atlantic ocean.  So it was kinda amazing for us to see.  

We did make it to San Fransisco before dark only to run in to another problem.  Our trailer did not follow the California state law stamped with a "Hud" sticker.  We went to several campsites just to be turned away.  After making several calls we found an after hour campground that would accept our trailer.  At this point in our journey this was a blessing.  We were able to stay at this campsite for the rest of our stay in San Francisco.  An afternoon wasted on finding a campground, so tomorrow we venture out to see the sites of San Fransisco!!