Ok, it's still Saturday, but now its a little past 10 pm and we have made it to Ventura, California where we will crash for the night at a Holiday Inn Express at the Ventura Harbor. What a day it has been, we had three bad starts....we went to pick up the rental car but the computers were down so we had to be processed manually, we finally got on the road at 11am and about a hour into the trip, we tried to switch the to radio Satellite radio, that was a no go, there was no Satellite Radio, which we requested when we made the reservation, we called the rental company, they asked us to go to the nearest airport, so we had to backtrack for thirty minutes to the San Jose Airport.....we finally ended up with a 2007 Lincoln Town Car with a satellite Radio system and satellite navigation and 100 dollars off the weekly rental price for the inconvenience, not a bad deal, by the time we finally got on the road, it was 1pm. From San Jose Airport we drove to Splash Bakery in San Luis Obispo, the sister restaurant to the Splash Cafe in Pismo beach who makes some of the best clam chowder on the West Coast! I sat down to talk to the ownerm Joanne who gave me a brief lesson on the history of the Splash Cafe and, she also spilled the beans about a possible new location on the California Polytechnic-San Luis Obispo and a possible Costco connection I'll tell you more about our conversation in a future Stanley's corner....... oh, and one more thing after leaving San Luis Obispo, we hit the highway only to realize we had entered the northbound lanes, basically heading in the wrong direction I realized this about 10 miles into the trip, I read a sign that said, "Salinas 102 miles" and for a minute I was wondering why there was two cities named Salinas, then it hit me, duh.... you're going the wrong way!!