The next time we took the trailer out, we went to the coast. Applying the lesson we’d learned the hard way at Burney, we checked the weather beforehand. The report called for sunny and in the fifties and sixties which was easier to plan for. We packed accordingly and took the Casita to a place we’d scouted on one of our drives: Lawson’s Landing in Dillon Beach, California.
Dillon Beach is a very long half-moon marked by the mouth of long, narrow Tomales Bay at one end, which reaches inland for miles. Dunes ebbed and flowed from the bay’s opening to bluffs where a small town of the same name was scattered over the slope like a handful of tossed dice.
Our campsite was right on the water. Mike backed the trailer up to the break wall, and sitting in the bed I could look out the back window of the Casita directly into the still, briny gre…
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