Camping Trip to Van Damme State Park, Mendocino and Grizzly Creek Campground, Humboldt 6/19/17 Monday Nancy and I had been preparing for our yearly camping trip for a couple of months. The heat wave in Lafayette had been unusually brutal for the last few days and the anticipation of a trip to the coast was palpable. We had done most of the packing the night before so we could just shower and hit the road. The only last minute item not packed was ice – a necessity for the gourmet perishables we had stocked away for the trip. I rushed off to Safeway hoping to just run in and out quickly -No Dice, No Ice. They didn’t even have dry ice. I had to get a refund and then headed to 7/11. At 7/11 it was the same deal. Of course the temperature was in the 100s for the last two days. It was the cause for the shortage. I came back to the apartment empty handed and we packed the last few items quickly having done the same routine for years. I must say we are very organized. We double checked