Bay area detour - SLO

last weekend all CA had one beautiful weather - which is gone now... so we pack our bag and went to san luis obispo a.k.a beach madness weekend

it is about 3.5 hours drive from us and this is mid point between LA and SF

1st stop (sat) pismo beach : it was really busy with people and dogs, pismo beach water is a lot warmer than what we used to and calmer than bay area, it was nice to have calm water so we can put kids in the waterfront and let them play with water

we stop at Splash cafe for their famous clam chowder - we always stop here when we pass by or stop by - their award winning chowder is sooo good (they even sell frozen one so you can go home and heat up) i love their fish taco and i think it was best fish taco - this place is must stop when you are in area



dinner at SLO down town - Thai palace right behind wood pit or it called fire pit(the famous b.b.q place - had dine here before and food was great of cause good b.b.q and great price - long line!!long~~line)

back to thai place, food was good - had fish and thin noodle, pineapple fried rice, tom yam soup, and chicken satay - girls love chicken satay and we love everything, place can get busy during dinner hours



we didn't stop by this time but there is 1st jamba juice, nothing special but it is 1st jamba



we stay at courtyard SLO i think this place is very new, i can smell "new" very roomy court yard best of all they had microwave in the room - we brought some snack/meal and we can heat up in the room - it was good for parents who have kids like us

room and hotel was clean have swimming pool and hot tub unfortunate we didn't have chance to use hot tub due to over crowded - hot tub will be nice after long day at beach

one complain about place...you can here everything from other room - i can here tv and door open and shut and tv again...

overall we like this place so we will be back for next month when we return from S.CA trip



sun. breakfast at room - trying to save money so we stay room and had breakfast



cayucas: on the way home we stop at cayucas, very small town full of charm quiter than pismo but i think it was busy consider how small their town is...wave was bigger than pismo and front part of beach have lots of stuff on sand

had lunch at duckie's - had fish taco, fish burger, and hot dog for kids was well price and my fish burger was good but not comes with fries - and we made mistake made to go and ate in the beach...had half burger and half sand...picnic doesn't work out well in the sand...

before we hit the road we stop at brown sugar cookie co. this place have best cookie (lots of magazine future this place) butter cookie(plain and coco) are superb and my favorite is honey cookie - crunch outside choowie inside and very honeyish...it will be sooooo good with warm tea...



took highway1 to home best scenic drive in CA - ocean view all the way pass cambria, San samon, herts castle, and big sur... can download this view, you have to see with your eyes - can be pretty long drive with kids and some people do drive crazy in this narrow and winy road!!!



stop for dinner at carmel had pizza/pasta place at barn shopping center where was entrance of carmel valley - food was o.k service was bad!! and had pricey tag...my experience of this barn yard shopping center restaurants(we dine all of restaurants but Japanese one) was bad food was all lower than average and everything is pricey - after all it is in carmel

after dinner it was just time for sunset at carmel beach 7:30ish

we catch the best sunset and nice way to finish our beach road trip....



it was really good beach trip...my girls had fun with sand (even few weeks back my older one hate sand...) we are totally CA family now....

and this is one of reason why we love to live in CA...can go to beach whenever we want to...

i will put some pictures tonight it is still in my camera...

happy vacation