I wanna rock!

This afternoon the family and I returned home from Morro Bay. Long before we hit the highway on our way to SLO county I had decided that I needed to get a picture of the girls at a historical marker while I was visiting the area. The easiest and most obvious marker (for me) was Morro Rock.

So after a fun morning at the beach, and on our way back home, we stopped at Morro Rock for a quick photograph. I wasn't sure I would be able to get a good picture because this was a holiday weekend and I worried that the area might be crowded. Luckily, when we arrived at the parking area below Morro Rock it was almost completely vacant. I parked away from the marker, so I wouldn't have to worry about my car showing up in the scene, and got the girls out of the car.

At the very same moment that the girls were situated on either side of California historical marker #821, a truck pulled into view. The driver stopped almost directly behind the marker (from our vantage point) and stayed there. I was baffled. Why was this man parking right in the middle of an empty parking lot when the canoe on the top of his truck suggested that he might want to be a tad bit closer to the ocean? He got out his cell phone and chatted away, taking no notice of the tourists nearby. Mike worked very hard to get good photographs of the girls (and me) at the marker without signs of the truck or the canoe. (In the photograph above, you can just see the shadow of the offender on the ground.)

As you might have guessed, the truck left very soon after we did. This little bit of irritation had me annoyed for some time, but after a while I realized that not only was this not a big deal, it does make for a cute story.

Hopefully, there will be even more details, more photos and more stories from our trip posted here soon.

Lisa