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Morro Bay | SLO Weekend Part 1
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I keep looking for the button to slow life down, but I just don't seem to be able to find it. When they handed me that squirming 9.5 lbs of boy baby some seventeen years ago I felt as though I had eons until the words "college tour" would become a regular part of my vocabulary. Well... those eons have passed all too quickly, and last weekend became a real SLO weekend. San Luis Obispo, that is for a college tour of CalPoly.
Having camped at the Morro Bay Campground, our love of Morro Bay goes back many years. A quaint, sleepy town on the edge of the water, SLO is an ideal location for a weekend getaway and leisurely walks by the bay.
Morro Rock, with its 23 million…
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