Sep 17, 2011 - Eureka,CA

Hi all, I hope you can download the pictures. Unfortunately they don't do justice to the actual itms. The Redwoods were awesome. I did visit LadyBird Johson's grove. Very quiet, peaceful and beautiful. The lighthouse is in Trinidad. I spent the night in Eureka, CA. Tomorrow I may visit the coast or go straight through to San Francisco. Love to all, M A ...

Jul 28, 2011 - Redcrest and Eureka

Redcrest - Avenue of the Giants (July 14-16) The Redwood trees along this stretch of California highway are magnificent. We had driven through here many years ago by car, but to camp here and spend time hiking among these huge trees is almost a spiritual experience. Hard to put into words, and the pictures hardly show just how awesome this place is. One evening we had just settled in, pulled the shades and were about to start a movie when someone knocked on the door of the RV. It was our friends, Bob and Mary Jewell Adkins from Benton....

Jul 16, 2011 - A Whale of a Time in the Redwoods...

July 14 - 15. WOW and WOW and WOW and WOW. Who would have thought we would find whales in the redwood forests??? Firstly, how to describe walking through forest groves containing 2000 year old trees, standing 350 feet tall? The name of one of the roads is called Avenue of the Giants, and that they are. And it's amazing to see life existing after forest fires and new life growing from fallen trees. We had a wonderful time being surrounded by these mighty trees, feeling the energy and getting a good perspective of life. The awesone beauty...

May 28, 2011 - Kinetic Sculpture Grand Championship

Thunderstorms delayed the Jacksonville departure of Susan's flight from Jacksonville enough that she would miss the connection to Eureka/Acarta so she spent the night by the gate in San Francisco airport. I dry camped in the long term parking lot and was there to meet her when she arrived Saturday at 8:30 AM. After some hugs and kisses we hurried to downtown Acarta where we were lucky enough to find a great parking space just a block from the plaza. By 9 the sculptures were lining up on the street with a hill for there brake test. Then they...

May 27, 2011 - Eureka/Arcata

Friday - our mail comes in today (fingers crossed) and Susan flight lands at 10 PM so today will be a laundry and clean up day. We'll stay in the long term parking lot tonight and tomorrow after the start of the Kinetic Sculpture Race we'll be on the move again to Brookings, Oregon. So what did I do for the last three days? Mostly explore the coastal towns from Eureka up to the little fishing village of Trinidad. Eureka is the largest City with approximately 45K residents in the urban area. This, like FB. was a Victorian seaport town. Back...

May 23, 2011 - On The Road

On Friday we picked our mail in Mendocino, picked up Mimi in Ft Bragg and headed north on Hwy 1 which at this point became real squiggly and up and down moving away from the coast and connecting with 101. We stopped at a large older park which only had a few permanents and a couple of transients. It's right below Garberville and the park host suggested that we have breakfast tomorrow at the Eel River Cafe. When I mention the name of a restaurant it's a place that if you are ever here, ugottago. It was great! Now, most of you should know...

May 8, 2011 - Brookings, OR

We kind of regretted not staying for the finish of the race but we also anxious to get up the coast. Since we started in the afternoon we decided to enjoy the rest of the CA coast and stop in the first town in Oregon. We made a reservation at thee Driftwood RV Park which turned out to be quite nice. The part was right across the street from the harbor and a restaurant where we ate wonderful halibut fish and chips for dinner. Sunday there was a craft/farmer's market on the waterfront of the port and a really nice car show in the parking lot....

Mar 25, 2011 - Eureka! We made it!...to Eureka:)

Well Jonathan motored on through the night. This time we drove through L.A, on purpose, took the kids past sights like the Hollywood sign & the capital records building. Made for some ooh and awwws, and a few cool pictures. It was a really beautiful drive up the coast and in to San Francisco where Jonathan stopped and joined the rest of us for a sleep til about 8am. When the kids got up we carried on and saw some more of that very cool city, including the Golden Gate bridge. We were really enjoying the PCH and thought Hwy 1, which runs...

Jan 28, 2011 - The big Redwoods

Not too much action today. We started out with a breakfast challenge. After two days in a row of Holiday Express eggs and paper thin bacon, I was ready for somewhere new. So we asked the desk clerk what was available. Carrow's she said - it's excellent! One step up from Denny's. So we trek back to the room and find the menu online, and start checking for ingredients - "this site is temporarily unavailable, please try again later". Oh no....just what I need on an empty stomach. So trouper that I am, I called the restaurant, can you tell me...

Oct 15, 2010 - Time in Eureka CA with friends

Hooray we made it to Eureka CA. Stayed in the Redwood Acres Fairground RV park. It was nice. We visited with some friends whom Chris had known previously to our relationship. They made me feel very welcome (Jackie). They went out to dinner with us and we rode in Tom's awesome Cord. Was a good time.

Aug 21, 2010 - Somoa Cookhouse

Still overcast and cool....Went to the Somoa Cookhouse for lunch (wanted breakfast) its is all you can eat. Homemade everything:bread (mmm), potato soup, salad (own croutons from their left over bread), potato's,corn,beans and fall apart spareribs and vanilla puddying that was so light. They will keep feeding you until you say stop! I am going to try to attach photo of the place. Ok that worked. They also have some great logging and history pictures of the area. It is the only cookhouse left in the nation that is still operating today!!! ...

Aug 20, 2010 - Eureka, CA

We checked out historic section and walked the new boardwalk. We walked to Carson Mansion, what a beautiful place. You can't tour it but just looking at it is enough. I have never seen anything like it. SF has some mansion but nothing like it. Sorry can't attach any pictures as I forgot the camera but I will try to get some tomorrow. As I mentioned before were staying at the Elks RV Lodge and it is a very nice place and the people are so friendly. We just had a great steak dinner. That's about it for now.