From Sean and Carla and a short one at that!

Seriously, how many times can you say WOW in a trip? I mean, “Oh look, we are driving along a cliff with a 1500 foot drop to the surf below and nary a guardrail to help save us… yawn!” You see these pictures in two dimensions, we get them in 4 dimensions… the view, the smells and the sense of all… too cool.

We left our park promptly at 12:30 after a bacon buttie and a FaceTime with the BRT and LRT folks. We continued up coastal Route 1, the same track (and that is a good description for some of the roadway in places) we had followed from San Fran early yesterday. One amazing vista after another! We ran through the Tamales Bay area which is famous for oysters and wind. It was blowing 30-40 knots (sunny of course) and a lone windsurfer was running back and forth across this inlet at huge speeds and getting lots of air flying off waves.

This area of Route 1 runs through and along the San Andreas Fault line but we were very brave and continued regardless.

Onward north, we stopped often for pictures that varied from dune panoramas to the Cliffs of Dover to the Giants Causeway in Ireland, all beautiful. The communities along the way were trendy, well sculpted and some perched on the edge of cliffs ensuring they will be first to go with the next bump from San Andreas. Lots of Art Galleries, novelty and antique shops and the like. Villages like Bodega Bay, Jenner and Mendocino all top the list. As a suggestion, just travel the coast if you go, simple as that and you can’t go wrong. Just don’t expect to make any time on these roads but who cares.

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A long and winding road…

Finally decided to quit for the day near 18:00, later than usual for us again but what the heck. We ended up just north of Fort Bragg at a State Park called MacKerricher. Right on the beach on the Mendocino shore complete with Harbour Seals and lots of surfers. Wild and nice but likely too chilly for a beach fire… but we’ll see.

Our campsite

Hoping to catch up with the other RTers by Friday night…