Day 7: My beautiful launderette

OOn the road again, leaving Santa Barbara and driving north on Highway 1 to San Luis Obispo - known locally as "Slo". We drove through some really extreme farming country, hundreds of fruit pickers in the fields and small towns full of grain silos. We stopped at a town called Lompoc, which has an annual "mural" competition, loads of house and shop ends were decorated with huge paintings, some interesting, some pretty awful.

Some of Lompoc's winning murals.

We arrived in San Luis Obispo mid afternoon, and our apartment is really great! We booked it through Air B and B, and the whole process is simple, also we like it because it's dealing with individuals rather than multi national corporations. The accommodation is a cosy 1st floor "studio" about 3 blocks from downtown SLO.

Our "lodgings, through the blue door and upstairs - that's the rental car too.

SLO is a lovely little town, small independent shops and lots of restaurants, it also has an unusual attraction, a short  passageway known as "Bubble gum Alley", where the walls on both sides are literally covered in lumps of discarded chewing gum... Pretty gross, but definitely different!

"Bubblegum" Alley - tons and tons of chewy.

We'e running low on clean clothes and were hoping that this apartment would have a washing machine, but unfortunately it hasn't, so we went in search of a laundromat. Several blocks away we found one and whiled away an hour reading our Kindles and watching our "smalls" tumble around... An  experience!

The glamour of it all!