The Core Of California's Key Coast: San Luis Obispo

m met amongst either shuddering disgust or local pride THE HEART OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST: San Luis Obispo


There’s equally good many to count, really. Maybe millions. Whenever I convey it up, I’m met amongst either shuddering disgust or local pride.


 Here inwards this narrow alley, in that place is non ane iota of wall infinite that is non covered upwardly amongst a used wad of gum. This colorful fiesta of chicle in addition to spit is Bubblegum Alley, where locals conduct maintain been sticking their paste on the wall since World War II.

Welcome to San Luis Obispo.


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The alley tin serve equally a metaphor. Halfway betwixt Los Angeles in addition to San Francisco simply doing its ain thing, this pretty college town lives inwards some other California…the ane non defined yesteryear large cities. Rather, it’s coastal, green, in addition to laid-back.


While many people coming from L.A. conduct maintain the coastal road upwardly Highway 101 through Ventura, Santa Barbara, in addition to Santa Maria; our road takes us over the hills from the key valley via Highway 46, yesteryear the James Dean Memorial Interchange, in addition to over the greenish hills on Highway 41, coming inwards to town on the rather steep Cuesta Grade from the north.

Our hateful solar daytime volition start amongst coffee, followed upwardly yesteryear a quick halt to Bubblegum Alley to cinema the intro to our video. After that, it’s out the westward cease of the alley to Higuera Street in addition to to Mission Mall on the other side.



While in that place are some fine shops inwards this footling arcade, including a squeamish toy store in addition to a shoe shop, it also makes for an easy, wheelchair accessible road to San Luis Creek inwards dorsum of the building.

About 240 years ago, Father Junipero Serra hung a bell from the large sycamore here, rang it to telephone telephone the faithful to mass, in addition to founded Mission San Luis Obispo.

There’s silent a large sycamore hither simply I dubiety it’s the same tree. The creek silent flows, however.

Steelhead trout discovery their agency upwardly this broad trickle of H2O to spawn. It’s almost 20 miles or in addition to thence from this signal to the creek’s coming together amongst the Pacific Ocean inwards nearby Avila Beach. The fish numbers conduct maintain severely dwindled. Now they’re protected in addition to don’t fifty-fifty intend almost line-fishing here.

It’s serene in addition to really beautiful to walk along the H2O here. Behind the mall, there’s a ramp downwards for wheelchairs to instruct roughly the water.

On the other side, the massive adobe edifice is where Father Serra’s mission industrial plant life a permanent home. Finished inwards 1819, visitors tin instantly pay a pocket-size fee to visit, consider the church, in addition to its historic courtyard.

A wheelchair accessible pedestrian span spans the creek here.

Back on Higuera, nosotros goal our morn stroll window shopping. We’re taking inwards a local Ross store, the Apple Store, a chocolate shop, in addition to a Bath in addition to Beauty Shop where my married adult woman takes payoff of the afterward Christmas sale to stock upwardly on lotions.




A 20 infinitesimal crusade takes us over the hills, yesteryear Cal Poly University, the penitentiary, the community college, in addition to the state’s get-go National Guard base of operations to the Ocean inwards Morro Bay.

Morro Bay is a tiny seafront town amongst a giant rock. The wharf, rock, in addition to bay conduct maintain a spectacular sentiment that is marred a fleck yesteryear the large generating industrial plant life at the due north cease of town.


We tin instruct yesteryear without it ruining our day, in addition to thence nosotros caput to the waterfront for tiffin at the Hofbrau. The star of the exhibit hither are the roast beef dip sandwiches that are hand-carved to your specification at the counter. 

We instruct a duo in addition to launder it downwards amongst a cold, German linguistic communication hefeweisen. It’s really good, hearty, filling nutrient nether $10 a somebody amongst a 1000000 dollar view.


After lunch, it’s a stroll along the waterfront. The town has done a pretty amazing chore of laying out an accessible road in addition to thence wheelchairs tin also whorl along over the water.




We popular inwards to Rose’s bar, some other whopper of a view, which features a completely wheelchair marking in addition to accessible bar shaped similar a boat. The tequila sour goes downwards expert amongst the sentiment equally nosotros toast the cease to this quick footling trip upwardly to the pump of California’s Central Coast.



 Darryl
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