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Atascadero, California

A tour of our rental
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Storm erosion at the beach.

According to Wikipedia: The Spanish word atascadero loosely means "bog" or "mire," from the verb atascar, which means "to become stuck or hindered.” On the other hand, in the Obispeño language, the site was named tsɨskikiye, which translates into a "place of much water.”

How appropriate, for this week, at least.

We arrived late Wednesday afternoon, and I’m thankful that although tired, we made the half-hour drive over the mountains to the beach at Morro Bay for a sunset walk. We followed that with a dawn hike back in Morro Bay up Black Hill. Then the rains came, and we’ve not seen the sun over the Pacific Ocean until noon today. We did get some splashes of it here in Atascadero yesterday afternoon, and it was glorious!

As you know, we scrambled to find new accommodations after the heavy snows hit Yosemite and the trails outside Mariposa in the Sierra foothills. But here, we’ve had near-record rain. On Friday, an alert pinged on my phone telling us to shelter i…

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