Tuesday marked a full week come and gone in our trip, and our first full day in San Luis Obispo. We woke up to the smell of coffee and pancakes, and made our way out to the kitchen for entertaining conversations with the Brit and the Aussie, wherein we got to explain the South to foreigners, and I was very glad for once that I was a product of the Internet and not the South itself. Embarrassment for my region, to be sure.
Since the hostel closed between 11 and 4:30 and essentially kicked everyone out, we decided that we would go hiking, and settled on heading up to Montana de Oro State Park to do some hiking. After some wibbling trying to find the right parking area for the Bluff Trail and having a coyote bounce across the road in front of us, we set off across some beautiful sea cliffs (after a warning about rattlesnakes being out and about). We managed to see several rabbits, as well and some really lovely waves and rock formations. We got about a mile or so before EK's ankle started to ache, and we headed back towards the car via road this time.
We still had some time to kill, so we hit downtown San Luis Obispo for some food, and ended up at the Black Sheep Bar and Grill, which, as EK said, definitely lived up to it's name. As we were waiting for what ended up being huge and amazingly delicious food, one of the bar regulars had started to make crank calls to the local Starbucks. We laughed, enjoyed what seemed like a pretty cool place, and then headed back to the hostel, which was still not open, so we went for another walk, back towards town for some coffee and chilling.
Our lunch was a little late, so we ended skipping dinner and instead hit up the Sunset Drive-In for the Fast Five, which was pretty horrifically hilarious. I'm glad more than anything that we saw it in the drive-in, because EK and I could not shut up with our clearly delightful commentary. Thus ended a pretty productive and fun day!
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