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119. Los Osos, California - Return to Go Westy Campers
November 16, 2007
We limped back into the Go Westy garage with a series of injuries and battle scars that had accumulated over the last ten months in Mexico and Central America:
A front door lock latch that had broken at Tikal
and could be fixed without the part, thus requiring us, for the last six months, to wiggle our finger in it before shutting the door.
A passenger-side mirror that was being held on only duck tape, courtesy of an encounter with a streetlight in Acapulco.
A rear end bumper that was mangled in several places from reversing into palm trees, bricks walls and telephone polls.
Add on a few other odds and sods in need of repair, and an upgrade to the High Power Headlight Kit, and our wallets were, just like that, over $1,000 lighter.
Nobody ever said that roadtripping came cheap.
But when you have your VW van in Southern California, a resource like Go Westy is just too good to pass up.
Our day in Los Osos had been deju vu all over again, in that the same mechanic – Dustin - worked on our van, we had passed the time waiting at the same delicious breakfast joint a few blocks from the garage, and after all was said and done then had returned to the Morro Dunes Travel Trailer & Resort Campground to spend the frigid night.
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Prior to meandering through the California foothills to Ventura and then up the coast on Highway 101 to Los Osos, we had spent five days decompressing/acclimatizing at my brother’s house in Valencia, a bedroom community 70 miles north LA and home to Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Chris and his family had moved their in June for work reasons, after spending the last several years in the Toronto area.
They were greeted their first month by an angry forest fire a valley over and had even been forced to evacuate their house for a few days.
But the fire had missed their house, meaning we could now bask beside the pool in 25 C plus late November weather and enjoy the company of family.
Do we really have to go home?
Key Facts & Figures:
-Morro Dunes Travel Trailer & Resort Campground: $25/night