Ocean View Lodge Fort Bragg

Peace out Santa Rosa... Maybe we'll meet again.<br> <br>After two nights at Claire's Rob and I packed up the car for the last time in Sonoma County.<br><br>Started off our day with breakfast with Claire and Flick. Piner Cafe.. Wish I met you earlier. After I stuffed my face with french toast for the second day in a row. Rob opted for the pancakes. Never in my life have I ever seen a pancake so big. Seriiously it had a 14 inch diameter and was about 2 ...

... I where I was going &#8211; of course I went the wrong way! And it was a very fortunate mistake as I ended up at the southern end of the Sonoma coast state park which is a beautiful 30 mile stretch of stunning coast and cove. The surf was definitely up and the crashing waves and the churning foam were an amazing sight. It was a good job that my legs were not up to the 7 mile hike in Jean Claude Van Damme state park cos I ended ...

... all over town, sitting on the beach and poring over maps.<br>Lovely time. Lovely sunny day in the high 60s. There are charming shops and a super, raw foods cafe I ate lunch at Living Light Cuisine. Sadly the library was closed, in fact due to budget constraints it only opens 4 days a week now. <br>I feel ready to take on the mountains again.

... grab my wet vest when I got to the next gas station fill-up. <br>By the time I did that and returned to the bike sitting on the parking lot, the temp was 102. Whoa. I couldn't get to the rte 1 junction with the coastal rte fast enough. Then I had 23 miles of sharp curves the sign said. It was not exaggeration. Could not make time. Switchback deluxe time.<br>I was delighted as the temp dropped ...

... of stop and go for 20 miles. As we got closer to the Golden Gate bridge so did the fog as we crossed the bridge it was barely visible due to the heavy fog just our luck! We then attempted to go in the view point on the north side of the bridge only to find it filled with people just like us and no parking was available so we continued on our journey to Ft Bragg. In our planning we thought it would be great to travel up the ...

After three weeks on the road, I'm finally taking some time to<br>figure out Travelpod. It's really a pretty simple site if you start out<br>right and update each day. I've added several locations from the period<br>7/18 through 7/22 in order to update the map so that it's not a<br>straight bee-line from Astoria, OR to Venice, CA. There are ...

... tourists to be out.<br><br>We went to dinner at the MacCallum House Restaurant in Mendocino and sat at a table by the fireplace. Very cozy. <br><br>The second day we drove up to Fort Bragg and stopped to buy sweatshirts in town. The cool breeze was a bit too cool, although still nice. Found a great sock shop in Fort Bragg and ended up going back a second time ...

... real and crazy and peaceful and ecstatically traumatic.  Just go and DANCE! Oh, and then there was Love Fest with 100,000 folk dancing to every style of electronica in the streets of San Francisco.  I was the guy on the top of the DJ booth right outside the City Hall powering out the LOVE across the Civic Centre Plaza. We took no photos. Check it out on Youtube.  But before you do that go and DANCE! You know what?  This blog is far too much like DOING something, so I'd better stop ...

... The lake was huge and the large round hills that surround the lake were quite green with dense forest. Not the giant redwoods but still very nice. It felt like we followed the lake for 30 minutes or so. Every turn we thought the lake ended but it stretched around each bend. We didn't stop even though I thought about it. I think we were all very excited to get to our hotel in Fort Bragg that we wanted to ...

... just keeps getting more beautiful. For the last couple of days we have been biking through miles and miles of giant ancient redwoods. The weather is becoming more consistently beautiful (knock on wood). Only 3 more days until the much anticipated critical mass in San Francisco. Will try to do more blogging there Dylan and Agents of Change www.agentsofchange.ca