Damn Big Tree

Let me start by saying that our trip to Big Sur this week was fantastic. Well, fantastic with one huge exception. This morning at 2:08 AM, this huge tree branch fell at least thirty feet, through my six-day-old camper shell, into the tail gate and truck bed, bounced into the awning (tearing and bending as it went) and came to rest on the picnic table. The impact exploded out all of the windows of the camper shell and the rear window of my truck.

Because of darkness and the storm, we couldn't leave after it happened. We tried to sleep till daybreak, which required us to try and stop our imaginations telling us that the tree litter falling on our roof during the storm was the precursor to another killer tree-bomb. Once we did break camp, it was fifty miles of driving in a cold, driving rain, before we got to a hardware store so I could cram a piece of hardboard where the rear window used to be.

I promise a full update on our trip in a day or so.