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months of looking and staying at the Oceanside Elks Club off Mission Avenue a block from the Ocean’s 11 Casino for $27 a night, (we only had one more month before we had to leave because sum- mer is their busy season), I was freaking out. I contin- ued to drive to apartments my friend Julie had found for me on Craigslist or through word-of-mouth in Carlsbad and Oceans- ide. I looked at the two RV parks on the Coast High- way in Oceanside — one next to the cemetery and the other next to the train tracks, but both were in the $2200 a month range — to park the RV. Ralph and I had joked
about living in a trailer park over the past few years, but we didn’t take it seriously. We didn’t think we fit the trailer-park stereotype. Trailer parks scared me with visions of mean pit bulls, meth labs, and residents sitting on tattered sofas outside their trailers. But as I drove past the Sandy Shores RV Park in Oceanside off the Harbor Drive exit, I saw a “For Rent” sign and I stopped. I looked tenta- tively at the single-wide in front and then slowly drove through the park. I passed a Porsche and a sleek Audi. I saw fifth-
wheel trailers parked next to single-wides with cute white fencing and little windmills. Older con- verted trailers like I used to camp in on the beach in Baja sported seashells, wind-chimes, and colorful signs pointing the way to the beach. At that moment, I felt
manager’s door. “Hi, I’m here about
the trailer space,” I said to the woman who looked like a retired surfer girl. “Is it still for rent?” She smiled, stepped
out, and answered my rapid questions. I wanted to live here even though I could hear the freeway,
Rent prices as a whole went up about 6 percent from June 2015 to June 2016, but the low-end zoomed up 21.7 percent.
more excited about find- ing the trailer park than when my husband first showed me the house in La Mesa he wanted us to buy 35 years earlier. A few hours later,
I directed Ralph to the trailer park, past the new In-N-Out, the Oceanside Welcome Center and the Main Attraction Gentle- man’s Club, and over a bridge where a few home- less people gathered. We turned on Monterey Street and took a right where a Holiday Inn towered over the street. “This is it,” I said,
pointing to the hand- written sign and the small block where mobile homes sat. He looked a lit- tle skeptical, but I jumped out and knocked on the
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the train track was only a block away, and we were surrounded by hotels — nice and not-so-nice — a Del Taco, and the giant neon sign. I had no idea what type of people lived in the trailer park. On the other hand, we are within walking distance to Oceanside Harbor and the beach. We would live in a city that is turning from gritty to an area filled with brew pubs, surf shops, and hipster hangouts. She gave me the
paperwork and within two weeks, we packed up our stuff and drove all four miles from the Elks Club to our new home at Sandy Shores. According to their
website, “Sandy Shores Trailer Park opened in 1951 during an era when RVs and travel trailers were growing in popu- larity and beginning to include modern con- veniences such as com- plete kitchens, refrig- erators, bathrooms, and real plumbing systems. Sandy Shores Trailer Park (1429 N. Coast Highway) was originally built as a 55-space trailer park across the street from what at the time was the
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