San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo is a cool place on the west coast 3 hours south of San Fran and about an hour north of Santa Barbara. We ended up going here last summer 2005. It is also the home of CalPoly Technic which is a fairly famous technology school. 
Andrew had a friend of the family living here renting houses to the students and we were lucky enough that no one was renting their house at the moment and we stayed there for a night. It worked out very well. A very popular thing to do in SLO is to go out on the sand dunes with dune buggies or ATV's. We chose ATVs. These are Honda 250ex's which is a midclass size that you can rent. We took them out on the sand dunes for about 2 hours.
These things are pretty cool. Check us all out in a line. We were whipping around the san dunes all day. They are really bumpy and later we would suffer much soreness in our lower back afterwards.
Check out Marcus flying off a little sand dune and getting some air. We ended finding a few different small jumps that we got air off of and I have never seen a crazy fall like Andrew did. I can't believe he got up. Good thing no on got seriously hurt. And I am particularily happy that I did not get hurt because I did not have any HEALTH INSURANCE! It was fairly risky not to have it.
Jonathan is part of a fraternity back in Toronto and we spent the night hanging out at their frat house. It was good to get to know some locals and they told us where we could find the nude beach called Pirates Cove. You can see it below in the picture. Don't go their unless you want to see old men that look like leather. I warn you..
The coast line is very beautiful on this stretch between Santa Barbara and Monterey. I really like it. The beach here was very long and wide. We spent the afternoon soaking up the sun.
Up north about 43 miles there is a place called Hearst Castle. This is the home of the legendary William Rudolph Hearst who was a newspaper mogul. I suggest you read up on this guy, he is pretty interesting. The movie Citizen Kane written by Orsen Welles is loosely based on Hearst's life story.
Thanks Marcus for the pics and the info form your blog.
Andrew had a friend of the family living here renting houses to the students and we were lucky enough that no one was renting their house at the moment and we stayed there for a night. It worked out very well. A very popular thing to do in SLO is to go out on the sand dunes with dune buggies or ATV's. We chose ATVs. These are Honda 250ex's which is a midclass size that you can rent. We took them out on the sand dunes for about 2 hours.
These things are pretty cool. Check us all out in a line. We were whipping around the san dunes all day. They are really bumpy and later we would suffer much soreness in our lower back afterwards.
Check out Marcus flying off a little sand dune and getting some air. We ended finding a few different small jumps that we got air off of and I have never seen a crazy fall like Andrew did. I can't believe he got up. Good thing no on got seriously hurt. And I am particularily happy that I did not get hurt because I did not have any HEALTH INSURANCE! It was fairly risky not to have it.
Jonathan is part of a fraternity back in Toronto and we spent the night hanging out at their frat house. It was good to get to know some locals and they told us where we could find the nude beach called Pirates Cove. You can see it below in the picture. Don't go their unless you want to see old men that look like leather. I warn you..
The coast line is very beautiful on this stretch between Santa Barbara and Monterey. I really like it. The beach here was very long and wide. We spent the afternoon soaking up the sun.
Up north about 43 miles there is a place called Hearst Castle. This is the home of the legendary William Rudolph Hearst who was a newspaper mogul. I suggest you read up on this guy, he is pretty interesting. The movie Citizen Kane written by Orsen Welles is loosely based on Hearst's life story.Thanks Marcus for the pics and the info form your blog.
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