Feb 13, 2025 - We made it to Laguna today, and stayed overnight before our drive to Los Osos for the long weekend. We're excited to finally visit Los Osos and see the house that Elaine & Ian bought. We're meeting up with Ian and his parents to do some demolition on the house before Elaine & Ian move in, in a few weeks.
We needed a quick arm workout before a walk down the street for dinner at Wine Gallery for happy hour.
half price pizza, meatballs and fries
then a quick game of Qwinto before bed.
Feb 14, 2025 - Kevin got up at 5:00AM and drove the RV to Los Osos. It's a 4.5 hour drive when there isn't any traffic and it's pretty hard to find a time when there isn't any traffic since you have to drive through LA to get there. Elaine is working a half day, so I'm hanging at Starbucks, while she works and then we'll head north at around noon. Since we're not getting there until 5ish, we'll meet everyone at the vineyard in Paso Robles.
A pretty rainbow at a rest stop on our way to Paso Robles
It looked like we could walk over to the end of the rainbow and find the pot of gold
Pretty drive when we're getting close to the vineyard.
and then not so pretty
We made it to the vineyard and the new house looks great!
Last time we were here (at Elaine & Ian's wedding, Sept 2021) this room didn't have finished walls, floors, or windows.
Feb 15, 2025 - We're all headed to the new house in Los Osos this morning. It's about a 45 minute drive from the vineyard.
pretty sunrise from the new deck
Happy Valentine's Day
We made it! Love that mountain in the distance. I think it's Hollister Peak which is one of the 9 Morros or 9 sisters. It's a 1404 ft peak that is part of a chain of volcanic plugs, that run from Morro Bay to San Luis Obispo. Morro Bay Rock is one of the sisters. A volcanic plug is a volcanic object which is created when magma hardens within a vent on an active volcano. Hollister peak can't be hiked because it's on private land, but a lot of the peaks in the area can.
They've made a lot of progress. There are 2 stairways in the new house, and they thought it would be good to get rid of one of the stairways so the living room is more open and the space on the first floor will be added to the master bedroom.
There's Morro Bay Rock in the distance
and Hollister Peak
a walk around the block with Elaine
we stopped at the Honey market down the street. How cute!
and we're back home
Next Elaine and I drove downtown (which is only a mile away) to pick up sandwiches for the crew. We did a quick walk through town while we were there. Love this boardwalk next to the bay
lots of kayaks
it's like a lake out there today
doesn't this look like a pineapple?
more kayak pics
downtown Los Osos is a pretty laid back spot...love it!
downtown is only about 2 blocks long, we're looking down to the bay
we picked up sandwiches at High St Deli, which has a wonderful outdoor garden (as do most restaurants in downtown Los Osos). I of course love the bench inside the old VW van.
and another cute bench
Todd and Laurie in the dumpster (which is getting quite full)
Kev's on break
that's a big hole
all this space gets added to the master
view from the kitchen
the remaining stairs
We're back at the vineyard and having a beer at the horse shoe pit
Kevin and Ian are playing horse shoes
Anderson Hill (one of our favorite places to camp)
the new road to the new vineyard house
sunset though Tiny
it's a little chilly and that fire is taking the edge off.
sunrise at the vineyard
nice bench in downtown Osos
coffee from the Nautical Bean
the town pier
half bear/half cow paddle boarding?
nice stump table and chairs
Elaine, Laurie & I walked down Elaine's street for a walk around the 1 mile boardwalk loop in the Elfin Forest (there's Morro Rock in the background)
Hollister peak in the distance
Morro Bay estuary
they're closing up the hole
looks great!
Feb 17, 2025 - Todd, Laurie and Ian all headed back to Laguna, but Elaine has Tuesday off, so she's hanging out with us for another day, yay!
On our way to Osos, we stopped at SloDoCo, in Atascadero for a pillow donut, which was so good
a walk at the vineyard
Feb 18, 2025 - Elaine's headed back to Laguna today, and Kev and I are going to hang around Los Osos for awhile.
a foggy morning at the vineyard
I think there's a sunset in there
Feb 19, 2025 - Today we rode our bikes downtown and went for a walk in the Elfin forest
after riding downtown, we had lunch at the picnic table at the pier
a walk through the forest
there are a lot of bear sculptures in Los Osos, (Osos is bears in Spanish). When the area was discovered by the Spanish in 1769, it was called the valley of the bears, since there were so many bears here.
Sunset with Morro Rock in the distance
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