In our excitement of being on the road again, we forgot to fill up with petrol before we left SLO. This meant we were in the middle of nowhere when the red light started flashing. We are used to regular service stations in Japan and the UK, but there aren't any of these on the 101. We pulled off the freeway at a town called Bradley (population 120). It was not much more than a collection of tatty trailers and a church. A scary white pick-up truck overtook us then vanished. We saw no other people, and this is a photo of the gas station.
We got out quick.
The next town was called San Ardo (population 501). The first gas station looked like this.
Fortunately, the second one was open. Just as well as we have seen the movie with Kurt Russel where one of them goes off for gas in a pickup truck with a local.....and never comes back.
We drove past the town of Gilroy. We spent 24 hours there on the way down at the outlets. We stayed at the classy Motel Super 8.
We haven't shopped like that since we were last there almost 2 years ago.
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