Saturday, April 13, 1013 - new Marriott and local errands

Today we drove south to Solana Beach where we knew there was another Courtyard by Marriott for a morning work session. We had lunch at Beach Grass Cafe on Pacific  Coast Highway, then picked up Mike's laundry and swung by Home Depot looking for a piece of indoor/outdoor carpet like we see many other campers in the park have to keep the dust down. No luck, but I did have a brief encounter with Mary who noticed I had taken one of her white charging cords by mistake when I leather house yesterday.

Big news is we did a walk through San Elijo State Beach and spoke with ranger Brooke who is in charge of camp host volunteers. She was in a meeting but said to turn in an application and she would call - they use four hosts in each park during the summer and there are always emergency needs for new hosts. We are hopeful we can get a camp host assignment in either San Elijo or South Carlsbad State Beach campgrounds in the fall.

This evening we enjoyed our last night by cooking a good mushroom stir fry for dinner, and sitting out to watch the weekend camping crowd parade by.