Woke up to rain this morning, and it rained all day.
But guess what? We had a great day anyway!
After breakfast at the hotel in Crescent City, CA looking out at the ocean and watching whales spout AGAIN,
we headed out. But it was late, because you know how easy it is to sleep in when you hear it raining outside.
We didn't very far before crossing the Klamath River and deciding to take a loop around in the National Forest there on a high, steep bluff over the river. I'd call it "out back" kind of stuff like Peter likes. I had my teeth clenched most of the time, but it was pretty to see and definately exciting. The drizzling rain didn't really matter because there was no pavement, only dirt & rock.
Back on Hwy 101 heading south again, we drove through more Redwood forests and the sight of them continues to blow us away. I try to retain them in my mind, but I just can't. I THINK I can see them, but then when I really see them, they are 100 times more awesome than I remembered. Took a few little off roads to make the drive more interesting you know and then back on 101 along the coast. The waves were a little furious today, I guess because of the rain. But the ocean view ran out at Eureka. South of there we took another off route called "The Avenue of Trees" which did not disappoint. It was a little sad that we could not walk much due to the rain, but we sure did enjoy every slow minute of driving through, even in the rain. Got turned around a couple of times trying to get back on Hwy 101 which allowed us to see that "hillbillies" live in the forests of CA too, and some even have pigs up in them thar mountains. But boy oh boy they must be happy!
Aside from the Redwoods, I'm not as thrilled with California as I was with Oregon. Oregon was exceptionally clean and each mile of hwy was beautiful. Not so much here in California, at least not yet anyway. But the Redwood trees do make up for it, I must admit. I didn't really notice until we got into California, but Oregon must have a no billboard law along the highways. We noticed right away in California all of the billboards. However, a lot of the highway today was four lane rather than two. Tomorrow we will get back on two lane when we pick up Hwy 1 at Leggett, CA. We actually drove that far tonight intending to stay there, BUT there was no place to stay. Peter asked a guy on the road if he knew where the closest hotel was and it was either drive back up to Garberville (1/2 hour) or down to Fort Bragg (1 hour). We chose Garberville even though it was a stretch of hwy that had hairpin turns most of the way - and remember - it's still raining and now it's dark and foggy too. BUT I survived because I was able to not only clench my teeth, but I was able to stretch out my right leg and lock my foot on the floorboard as if I had control - ha ha ha.
But all in vain because Peter was an excellent driver anyway and we arrived safely at the Best Western Hotel.
The hotel is very nice and had a wine and cheese reception going on which we gladly partook of.
Tomorrow we will again head down the road on the hairpin turn hwy to pick up Hwy 1 at Leggett.
From there we still don't know. We are following some sort of inspirational pull that so far has led safely to just wonder and awe.
I'm missing all of you more and more though xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Love and hugs,
Mom/Bellexoxoxo
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