Sunday, February 18th - To the Ocean!

We packed up and left the creature comforts at Rancho California after eight day there.

MA drove ahead and picked up some McMuffins. We drove separately for the 50 miles over to Oceanside and Carlsbad, California.

We parked on Carlsbad Avenue, right on the Pacific Ocean. We stayed there, walking the beach, enjoying the surf and napping.

We left the coach there while we went to eat at Chili's in Oceanside and to scope out prospective night camps at Wal-Mart. We checked out two of the three Wal-Marts in Oceanside. They had signs saying no overnight parking. At the second one, I went in to the store to ask the manager, a trick that worked once in Savannah. The manager said that there is a city ordinance prohibiting overnight parking because of a lot of really bad gang activity in Oceanside.

That was all I needed to hear! We returned to the coach and researched private camping in the area. No luck there...President's Day Week-end meant full campgrounds. I remembered conversations I had with Ken Tilton regarding Elks Club camping and with a neighbor at Rancho California who said he was heading to the Elks Club in Oceanside. I looked up the address of the Oceanside Elks Club. It was about five miles north. So, MA drove the Jeep and I drove the coach. We are now comfortably situated for the night.

Tomorrow, we head to Campland at Mission Bay in San Diego.