SLO, Part I

A couple weekends ago I took off work Friday and Francis and I drove up to our beloved* San Luis Obispo for a long weekend. Our first day started with brunch (yes, brunch - we slept in since we pulled up to our hotel around 2am) at Del Monte's. We worked off brunch with a hike to and through Poly Canyon** accompanied by a smattering of giant raindrops. After some treacherous measures taken to avoid poison oak we headed (unscathed) downtown...to be continued in Part II.

{view from Del Monte's where we stopped for breakfast}

{condiments}

{creamer pour}

{patiently awaiting breakfast}

{on our first mini quest, the destination: Poly Canyon}

{he had a rather difficult time climbing the tree}

{almost there}

{nailed it}

{a somewhat confusing map of the Poly Canyon structures}

{structure 1, as in the first structure we came upon}

{the sun was out and it started to rain}

{cantilevered bridge to nowheres, but still awesome}

{looking pensive}

{cables, rolling green hills}

{structure!}

{this structure looked like a conch shell}

{this little pod was my favorite}

{dat ders cows out yonder way}

{lover shot}

{hay bale structure, me trying to look interested in the hay bale structure}

{hay bale structure from afar}

{we may or may not have taken some illegal self guided tours}

{very coolorganic structure}

{cool reuse of road signs as shingles}

*technically just Francis's beloved since he attended Cal Poly SLO and actually lived there, and I did not. But my older sister did go there hence I visited the town a few times and fell in love with it. So there.

**for those of you unfamiliar with Poly Canyon, it is a nine-acre canyon adjacent to the main SLO campus. It encompasses an "outdoor experimental construction laboratory that for more than four decades has been the host site of several structures designed and built mostly by students of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design". (quoted from Cal Poly website)

***Not pictured: a desperate hunt for Taco Bell on the late drive up to SLO whilst a very grumpy Christina sat hungrily pouting in the passenger until her demands for a burrito were met.

Francis obliged. The remainder of the drive proceeded peacefully, mostly due to the satiated co-pilot's burrito nap.