For our first venture in the new trailer, we chose territory close to home -- Carmel and the Monterey peninsula.  We settled into the nicely wooded, if crowded, Carmel River Park only a few miles east of downtown Carmel and the beach.  Mike got to practice his "backing-up" skills -- a lot -- and we celebrated our first bivouac.

We did a little shopping in Carmel and visited my favorite breakfast cottage, the Tuck Box; but mostly we drove around and enjoyed the fabulous scenery.    While visiting Monterey, we solved one of our traveling problems by visiting the local Kinko's for an internet connection.