Full Timing with Dale & DebbieDale and Debbie have agreed to share their on-the-road stories each month with our ABLifestyles camper family with their own column “Full Timing with Dale and Debbie”. We hope you will find their stories and journeys as interesting as we do. Many of us fantasize about becoming full timers and traveling the width and breadth of our wonderful country. If you can’t just yet, you can tag along with Dale and Debbie and live vicariously through their travels.Monarch Butterfly Grove Pismo State Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove is one of the largest in the nation. Thousands of Monarch Butterflies flock to Pismo Beach, CA from late Oct. - Feb. each year seeking shelter from freezing northern winters. They cluster in the limbs of a grove of Eucalyptus trees forming dense clusters with each one hanging with its wing down over the one below it to form a shingle effect. This provides shelter from the rain and warmth for the group. And the weight of the cluster helps keep it from whipping in the wind and dislodging the butterflies. They become active when the sun hits their wings. |