Today a news story broke. It was the one I’ve been waiting for ever since I became British Royal Family Examiner.

Even RVers have Mondays! But we left the Stockton-Lodi area, armed with Lockeford sausage and notarized papers, and made it as far as Carnegie SVRA.

We went to Brannan Island, perhaps for the last time. The place has priced itself out of our range.

21 February 2009: The beach stretches out towards tiny Pismo village.

21 February 2009: This woman was strolling along the beach, one of many who were using it for their morning play or exercise. The picture didn’t really come out how I wished, but I liked the way she was reflected in the watery sand.

21 February 2009: I like purple. You can really see the thick, succulent vegetation, which crawls over the dunes and somehow manages to cling on. This is a survivalist plant, and looks beautiful too.

21 February 2009: The dunes were covered in these tough-looking, lovely flowers. I don’t know what they are, but I know that somebody’s going to tell me Real Soon Now. I want to say sea holly, but I don’t know. Either way, they grow in sand.

21 February 2009: We were aiming for SLO, but stopped here, at Pismo Beach, because it was dark and the fog was coming in. A short walk had me right down at a large, open beach. It was busy with people walking their dogs or children, a play beach, surrounded by dunes, rather than spectacular. [...]

20 February 2009: This little guy was sunning himself on his self-made casbah, and didn’t notice me until I got quite close. Then he freaked. ;)