It was finally time to say goodbye to SLO and Pismo beach. We grabbed breakfast at the Honeymoon Cafe and headed to the beach for a long walk before oublong drive. Pismo was hosting a high school marching band competition so we stopped to watch for a bit. From what we could tell each band (30-50 kids?) Got about 30 seconds to perform. Hopefully there were multiple roundsnof competition. Loading up a bus or two with all of those kids and equipment seemed like a hefty investment for such a short performance time.
On our beach walk we saw at least two cars stuck in the sand. One we were able to help push to get it unstuck, and the other was being pulled out by a friend. I think we prefer walking on the beach.
We spent the next two days driving. I will not bore you with a recounting of every childrens audio book we listened to. You can get through a lot of read alouds in 13 hours.
Near the end of Sunday's drive we stopped at Montezuma's Castle. It is important to note that Montezuma never stayed there, and that it isn't a castle. Rather, it is a cliff dwelling used by native people of the United States southwest.
The dwelling is built high up in the cliff and is only accessible by ladders. Visitors are no longer allowed to enter the dwelling, but you get a good view of the outside and there is a model to show what the inside looked like when it was occupied. At the bottom of the cliff, also what the walking path is, is a river bed. The current hypothesis is that the cliff dwelling was built so high up because of the flash floods that come through the valley with some regularity. Nobody likes having all of their worldly possessions washed several miles away I guess.
Remy recieved his first junior park ranger badge for keeping his eye peeled and locating several objects within the vicinity of the park. It was unbeknownst to us that this is an activity that is available at most national parks. Please address him as Park Ranger Remy from now on.
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