Shoreline Cottages Fort Bragg

... What?!?! Right.. we're in California.. Movie set. So for about 30 minutes we drove behind a a gorilla in a car before we finally were allowed to pass. <br><br>Thirty minutes after that we got stopped when 3 rescue helicopters flew into my favorite coastal spot and STOP... we're going NOWHERE for about 40 minutes while a pile of abulances, the afore mentioned helicoptors, and about 18 polices cars came to rescue the absolutely devistated baby blue ...

... 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.

... scene.<br>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 ...

... 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 ...

... pictures<br>or description on these added dates.<br><br>Please see Venice, July 24th - "Taking a Little Time Out" - for the latest update following Astoria on July 17th.<br><br>I'll add this same description to each<br>of the added dates and locations to direct you to the next update.<br>Sorry for any confusion!!!!<br><br><br>Linda 7/25/09

... don't know why he just wanted to help the Brits that arrived a little bit before us. He did finally offer tastings, for a price. <br><br>On the way back to Little River, we stopped to see the Point Cabrillo Light Station. It's about a half mile walk from the parking lot to the lighthouse, but worth the time. The lighthouse is one hundred years old this year ...

... coast after a journey inland (where the sun was shining) brought us back amongst the fog, but we continued on to Fort Bragg which we had read was a much cheaper option than Mendocino/Spendocino and found a great hotel called the Beachcomber. Dinner was a family run italian that wanted to close before we appeared at their door but they were kind enough not to send us away at 8pm without a bowl of pasta.

... to protect him and thus why he doesn't want to lose the right to own a gun. They have no health care or job security. It is much more a dog-eat-dog existence with very rich people but many more living in mobile homes - the white-trailer-trash comment is very firmly based on fact inasmuch as in nearly every town we've been there has been a mobile home site with plently of dilapidated-looking mobile homes.

... in as soon as the news spread. They harvested the creatures from rock formations all up and down the coast. Fort Bragg enjoyed an economic rebirth. Nick described how the divers deposit the sea urchins in baskets which hang from lines dropped from boats hovering above. Initially individual divers measured their daily haul in tons, which earned them thousands of dollars daily. The prospect of sudden wealth set off an additional mass incursion of young men eager ...