Oceanside Inn & Suites Fort Bragg

... all over town, sitting on the beach and poring over maps.
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.
I feel ready to take on the mountains again.

... scene.
The road was pretty quiet from there on, winding thru more redwoods and I almost took the Newton Drury Parkway from yesterday's wonderful ride, but I wanted to make some semblance of time. The temperature when I started was 58F and gradually climbed to 66-68 until I finished climbing and got into regular forested mountain land. I noticed it was getting into the high 70s and figured I ...

... on Route 1 and follow the coast line up visiting all of the small coastal towns. This was a great plan and it was definitely fun for about the first hour or two but after a grueling 5 to 6 hours of what seemed to be over a thousand left and rights turns that boarder lined a case of insanity. Alright enough of my complaining the coast line was very beautiful and all in all we had a great drive up but it was a very long day.

... glass, and some tidepools, but it was beautiful anyway because finally the sun had come out and the Pacific was a beautiful blue after all that gray in Oregon. We really as we headed south again that our campground as actually a bit further south than we realized, further down the windiest, craziest, scariest, twistiest road possible. We hugged the coast and it was beautiful, but death defying at the same time.

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

... my hands covered in sweat, when the truck made a decision.

i told Vanessa the brakes felt spongy. She said something smelled hot. We turned off on one of the S curves and as soon as we stopped, smoke rose form the wheels. The brakes were smoking hot and making a crackling sound. Vanessa threw herself under the truck and saw the flames on the back side of the tire. I grabbed the fire extinguisher out ...

The day was evenly split into two - in the morning I allowed myself to by abducted by railway riding blue grass aliens and the afternoon at the beach. First the blue grass singing aliens - I took a four hour train ride on the Skunk Train - name this because you could smell it (gasoline engine and coal oil heaters) before you could see it. The train (engine & passenger compartment all in one unit) was built in 1935 and I have never ridden on this type of train before ...

... around every corner by another magnificent tree. The satellite radio and Daniel (our GPS) kept on losing signal either from just the trees blocking the signal or the hills that blocked the signal. The roads were quiet, and there weren't that many towns or villages we passed through. We turned off at Leggett, where there is a tree so old (400BC ...

... be a landfill type area and now is just a beach full of rocks with plastic forks imbedded in them, or tires, or glass. We saw some cool wildlife there too. After dinner, we went back to our motel. It was awesome; you could see the Pacific from our window. We spent much of the next day in Mendocino before driving down Highway 1 through Point Arena, Elk, and Fort Ross where we stayed the next night. I ...

... Soon I followed. We were bound for the same destinations;Point Arena, Elk, Albion, Mendecino and Fort Bragg. When I passed him he was slowly pumping his way up a long grade. He waved me on, appearing confident of his stamina, and happy with his project. I think I would like to know him better. Fort Bragg, California is situated at the mouth of the Noyo River. As soon as I drove into town I could see it was a unique place. A traffic control sign warned, "No ...