Manchester KOA Campground

We left Richardson grove state park around 9:30, as I was trying to hurry Brandon along so we could hit the road.  We had a rough hill to climb this day it was the legendary leggett.  Ugh  last huge hill apparently, but this has been said many times before!!  Halfway up the hill I was getting tired and hungry so talked Brandon into a lunch break at the side of the road.  Boy was that sandwich and potatoe salad good.  Its funny how people in their cars pass you and give funny looks (yes we know climbing up this monsterous hill is crazy)  But it was peaceful and their is nothing like smelling pine trees and the birds singing!!  We have not once got out our music.  Which is surprising but we like to hear when the big logger trucks are coming since we still do not have mirrors.  With Leggett passed us we finally arrived in Westport and met up with two very nice ladies, Linda and Janet who work for Caltrans and were hosting an open house to identify problems on the road in the area and widening the shoulder.  I was just wondering about free food and ice-cream.(haha)  They were very nice and took our picture, feeling like true adventurers we left and said our goodbyes after telling them how far we had ridden and all the people we had met.  Saw the brother and sister Jim was telling us about who Brandon thought was a father and son from the night before when we saw them before Benbow campground.  Met up with them again at the end of a huge 7% downgrade before our camp.  So David and Daphne the brother and sister had decided to take a bus cutting 50 miles off their trip and head into Guala.  Brandon thought for a brief moment and then we parted then headed for Manchester State park.  Well after checking out the Grocery store then arriving at the state park with no warm showers we opted for the Manchester KOA.  This has been the best KOA campground we have stayed so far (it is our 2nd on the trip) but really was clean, well maintained, had a lot to do for the kids(movies, go karts, heated pool and jacuzzi, ice cream social and community kitchen with game room) it was nice and guess who we met up with Jim.  He has been so nice to know a really great guy and we have had such nice conversations with him, he had rented a cabin which would have been nice to have shared but we had already paid for our spot so decided to invite him over for dinner.  We all had fun talking about those awful hills and David and Daphne.  Who by the way have been (stealth camping) the whole trip.  They have literally stayed in the same campgrounds with no bill to pay. (Funny)  Before we left the next morning told Jim to have a great reunion and glad to have met him.  The logo on the KOA campground store said " It doesn't matter that life takes your breath away what matters is who you meet and what you see that takes your breath away"  Something like that I cant remember really but it for sure is true, because we have seen so many things that we are appreciative for while peddaling our hind end off, and the people we have met.  Great Times!!