February 16 & 17, 2010
Well we spent most of these 2 days getting our rig all fixed up....We finally figured out why our brakes keep going out...we had a short in the power cord going to the van, but that doesn't explain why it only happened when we were making our biggest climbs or declines. We were also having problems with our inverter getting overloaded by our computer so we had it connected directly to our battery rather than use the 12 volt outlet and it seems that problem has been resolved also. We also had a vent cover put on the vent in the bathroom so when it snows or rains it doesn't come in and we can leave the vent open if we want while travelling. The bad news they had for us was that we had a broken leaf spring and we needed to head to San Jose to have that fixed. So we drove directly to San Jose and they told us we would have to replace both sides sides and that they could get the parts first thing in the morning, so we left our trailer there and got a hotel room for the night which was nice...especially with this bug we are fighting...On the 17th we drove back to Santa Cruz.

February 18, 2010
Both down for the count....we went for a walk, watched some of the surfers and went in to a few shops....Just trying to rest up and fight this bug off....

February 19, 2010
Went for a long walk along the beach and went to see a shipwreck. Bill did go out on his small surf board and SUP at steamers lane in Santa Cruz...the waves were pretty big and he had to paddle out against the current which kind of tired him out as he is under the weather, but he really wanted to check that off his list before we headed out. We are heading to San Francisco next..