Blogs from Half Moon Bay, California, United States, North America - page 2

We completed our first week as camp ground hosts. We work really hard 5 days a week. At 8 am I walk around the park and look for unregistered vehicles. I then turn in the night papers to the Kiosk. At 7pm I go the Kiosk and get the night registration papers. At sunset, I make a generator check. Generators must be off at 8pm. I then lock the entrance gate but not the exit gate. I then lock the day use parking lot gate and day use bathrooms. Jan registers after hour’s campers and sells firewood. Other then occasional questions that is it! We have a radio to call for help. Really tough duty. We haven’t received any mail so far. We put in a change of address before we left but Curt, my neighbor ... read more

On our first day at the host camp site, we went to town for a little shopping. When we got back we found the motor home drivers side winter shattered. It looked like a rock hit it at a high speed. The grass had been cut that day and the Ranger thought that it could be that. (I hope, I hope). I got an estimate for a new window $1625. I have $500 deductible insurance so I hope the state comes through... read more

Hi everyone, I am activating my travel blog in preparation for our 4.5 month trip starting in April. I will send updates when interesting events happen. You will get a notice of each update. If you do not want to get notices, please let me know and I will remove your email address. We will be Campground hosts at the Half Moon Bay state park from May 1 to August 31. The campground is in Half Moon Bay CA and is about 30 miles south of San Francisco. We will depart home on April 20, 2013 and take 3 days to drive to Half Moon State Beach. We will leave the motor home there for about a week and drive to Los Angeles to see our granddaughters and swim in their pool. On May 1 we ... read more

I HAD A FULL EVENING THAT FRIDAY NIGHT IN OAKLAND, filled with eating sushi, hip hop clubbing and late conversation with my girlfriends. After all was said and done, I finally hit the pillow around 2:30am and was ready to dream. I was exhausted from the long work week and had pushed myself to go out that night. I figured- no worries- for I had my entire Saturday to sleep in, lounge around the apartment, doodle on my smart phone, relax, and finally get some writing done. Or so I thought. The next morning at approximately 8am, I woke up to the sounds of beeping construction trucks and busy maintenance workers speaking in Spanish while drilling into the street's pavement directly outside my bedroom window. If the sunshine of the predicted 90 degree weather forecasted for ... read more

What a ride. Peter and Julia live in a magical spot in the hills above Oakland, with a view across the bay. Julia, sister of one of Rosie's ex work colleagues, had invited us over for an early evening meal on their panoramic terrace. We'd stopped off on the way to wander around the university campus at Berkeley - all seemed fairly quiet. There was no sign of the National Guard, anti-Vietnam protests or draft card burning. It was a regular Saturday afternoon, with al fresco hanging out being the main observable activity. The pot-holed freeway past Oakland seemed a world away from the idyllic parkland of the Berkeley campus and we climbed the wooded hills above downtown Oakland to find Peter and Julia's magnificent eyrie. A few hours of great food and conversation later, Peter ... read more