Monterey Peninsula, California (and Salinas)

     We're actually in a KOA outside of Monterey in Salinas, California.  The place is gorgeous and so many fields of produce and fruits, mostly berries as it looks, and also the garlic and artichoke capitals of the U.S.  We just about 15 minutes from the Monterey Wharf and Cannery Row on the end of the Peninsula, once again great sea food and a lot of tourist stuff to do.  The weather is the best part I guess, we actually had to wear jackets on the way to the wharf but in the sun it was nice.  The high yesterday was 69 and supposed to get to 70 today and 68 tomorrow, yet one more place along our journey Bev says she loves!
     The trip out of Tahoe was very smokey, all the was down the hill into Sacramento but thickest up near Tahoe.  The fires around Yosemite are really blazing and only 7% contained as of this writing, it was very hard to breath even while traveling in the motor home until we got into Sacramento and went south from there. 
     We hit a town called "Los Banos" about 4:30 p.m. ................Los Banos, I believe that's "The Toilet" or something like that in Spanish and it was hot in the coach so we decided to go on into Salinas and glad we did.  We were her by 6:30 or so and got a great place in another great KOA, as Bev was making the reservations over the phone I heard her say 30 amp (the electric hook-up power the site provides and we prefer 50 amp in case we need both A/C units running at once) the guy on the other end heard me say 50 and he told her not to worry we would need the heater long before we'd need A/C and he was so right...just wonderful!
     Yesterday we road into or down the peninsula thru Sea Side and Sand City (major sand dunes along the coast) to Monterey and the Wharf and Cannery Row.  Sea food abounds once more and you know how we love it, start off with squid, clam chowder, shrimp, salmon and mahi mahi (durado) and then have no room for desert!  We think each time which chowder was the best and it's always the latest one seems the best, when in essences their all pretty damn good.  We started eating chowder in upper Wisconsin in Duluth/Superior and then once more in Oregon and the the Bay area and now the Monterey Peninsula...........all good, yep all good!
     It's already 10:00 a.m., Bev has slept in a bit and we're decided what to do today, we leave her tomorrow heading towards San Diego for those last days of the journey.  We have already made reservations at a place called La Pacifica RV park in San Diego, 4 miles from Imperial beach and 4 miles from the Mexican border at Tijuana............no not going any closer to that place!  We'll be there from the 28th thru the 1st and were damn lucky to get a place at all due to the Labor Day weekend, most places were booked up already.  We've invited the kids to drive over and spend the weekend with up in San Diego and we could take the grand kids to Sea World or something, hoping the all can make it, we miss them so and would love nothing more than to spend our last few days on the road with them around.  I'll let you know if this will all come to fruition.