Had the best of both worlds today, the heavens truly aligned!
Went to the tourist info in San Luis Obispo and decided that the historic town could wait, racing quad bikes on sand dunes was the priority. There is a huge area of enormous dunes at Pismo Beach, just down the road.
(Christina) I can tell you from a slightly more girly point of view, these sand dunes were huge, and scary! Some of them were the height of a couple of houses! They just rented you these crazy, 50mph ATVs and sent you off, so you could roam around the sand dunes. A bit like skiing off-piste, you never know when you're going to hit a vertical drop!
Pete was spinning the wheels, sending sand in all directions and speeding into the distance. I followed him like the loyal wife I am, but unfortunately hit a rather large dune at speed. Imagine a large, pointed sand dune - I flew over the top, achieved a large amount of air and yes, crash landed fairly spectacularly. Thankfully, as you can see, I lived to tell the tale. It was just a mad place, never seen anything like it!
Later on I got to live out a Grease style moment when we went to the Sunset Drive-In. It was really retro, apparently hasn't changed much for the past 40 years or so. It was great. We saw Toy Story 3, which was brilliant.
Oh yes and p.s. We did actually manage to fit in a bit of historical sightseeing in between gallivanting around. It's a really interesting town - one of the first Catholic Missions was established here in 1772.
Off to see Hearst Castle tomorrow as we drive up the coast to Monterey, along the famous Coastal highway!
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