Driveways and Gateways to the Dunes (Blog Version)

(Author's note: I've decided to provide two versions of a posting. Immediately below is my streamlined, internet savvy "Blog Version" of "Driveways and Gateways to the Dunes." Further below is my longer old school newspaper style version.)


Oceano and Guadalupe are squabbling over who has more right to use the marketing slogan "Gateway to the Dunes."

Anyone who visits Oceano's Pier Avenue on a holiday weekend and witnesses the blocks-long parade of RV's, travel trailers, and hopped-up pick-ups and SUV's crawling past the ranger kiosk on the way to play in the great piles of sand to the south may agree that Oceano should consider a fresher, perhaps more accurate slogan:

"Oceano, Driveway to the Dunes".