San Luis Obispo, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"He wandered by the sea from the border north as far as San Luis Obispo, and he learned to pilfer the tide pools for abalones and eels and mussels and perch, to dig the sandbars for clams, and to trap a rabbit in the dunes with a noose of fishline."

"As long as we’re talking about ourselves, have you ever thought that our whole world is the valley and a few trips to San Francisco, and have you ever been farther south than San Luis Obispo? I never have."

"… she said she had relatives in San Luis Obispo."

"…sleep on the beach at Santa Barbara that night and catch either another local to San Luis Obispo the next morning or the first class freight all the way to San Francisco at seven p.m."

"I woke up under the glare of the yard office lights in San Luis Obispo, a very dangerous situation"