Crisis in Morro Bay at the 2006 Harbor Festival
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...........In October 2006, I had a nightmare come true.
We always arrived in Morro Bay for the festival on the preceding
Friday afternoon and set up our display and then head for the motel,
grabbing something to eat along the way.
We usually stayed at one of the Motel 6’s in San Luis Obispo, but
they were filled up and I made reservations at a Best Western downtown.
After closing up on Saturday, we hopped into our van and drove
down Highway One. As we
were cruising through an intersection in San Luis Obispo, a college kid
ran a red light and smashed into the right hand side of us. We wife gave
out a scream as she saw the car heading for us.
We were able to make it across the street and parked the van
alongside the curb. I had a very sick feeling as I was unable to turn
the wheel as the front right hand side was damaged and we were
definitely going to need a tow.
I was glad that my wife was okay, as she was in the passenger
seat. I hopped out of the
van and went around and took a look at the damage.
I couldn’t believe it.
Here we were 220 miles from home and our vehicle was knocked out
of commission. We were
doing a show 18 miles away and that’s where all our stuff is and we
wondered how we would get our stuff out of there.
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