Long Beach to San Fran

We flew across to California from Florida, picked up another rental car and headed straight for Julie in Long Beach for a couple of days. We hung out like locals, walked on the beach, explored all the beaches of Orange County and had a great BBQ on the deck. What a good lifestyle on the Californian Coast!
We, Gail, Neil and Julie, headed north to San Luis Obispo (SLO) via Santa Barbara, which has a great pier and plenty of good shops and restaurants. We visited the Mission, one of many set up all along the Californian Coast by Spanish Missionaries, notably the peripatetic Padre Serra. Go on, look up the meaning of peripatetic; we had to!
We got to SLO and headed out to the weekly night market for dinner. We met up with George and Glenda, newly settled here from SA.
By the next morning, our travel group had grown again, Stefan and Andrea having caught the train down to SLO. We set off for a day of wine tasting in Paso Robles and celebrated Julie’s birthday with lunch in town.
Then it was the longish drive up to San Francisco.