The Harbor Lite Lodge 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.

... to high 60s and we rolled along the no barriers road to Fort Bragg. The Beachcomber is in a great spot. Just walk behind it to the long boardwalk then descend to the beach, or walk across a bridge into the downtown.
I walked around the beach then headed into town to the North Coast Brewing Co. restaurant, on the recommendation of the desk clerk. An excellent choice and I thanked him later.

... 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.

... away, and headed south on the Redwood Highway, we ran into a bunch of wildlife: first a herd of elks poised right at the edge of the road ready to cross in front of us, and a few minutes later a black bear did lope right across the road in front of us. Past the Victorian town of Eureka and on to Leggett to a drive-through redwood. After lining up with the other tourists, we paid our obligatory five dollars ...

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 ...

... The forest ground was covered in clover. The sun would break through the largely shaded area to highlight, or create, great shrines to the fallen trees. It makes you feel little. i see why Bigfoot lives there.

As we continued through the forest, we spotted a beach along a river bend. We took an hour out of what has become long, rainy driving days to enjoy the sun and what turned out to be a great ...

... which is 3 miles from our campground. We went to the North Coast Brewing Company and purchased some local brew. We also participated in some Wine tasting at the Pacific Coast Winery-both very good-highly recommend "Red Seal beer" and "Dad's Daily Red" wine. On the way back, we stopped at Glass Beach which is a beach area outside of the campground. Many were swimming-we were not!! It's very cool but Erin says she is going in tomorrow. Later in the ...

... against us as examples of Europeans. Very upsetting - not dangerous or anything but we felt under attack anyway. In the evening we found the "Grill and Tap Room" of the local brewery where MJ got hold of his standard sampler - with two amazing ales, one of which was 11%. Yummy. We both couldn't get to sleep albeit that the pee-run at 2am gave us the most AMAZING sight of the STARS. There are 1000's of them up there and they are so BRIGHTcompared with what I've seen before.

... of the parade was a man dressed all in pink Lyra that was riding a unicycle, I think he had missed the gay parade! Beth left as she had an apartment to look at and I went to the end of the parade at City Hall where everyone was coming together, with stalls, music and food. I watched and Irish band called Cullans Hounds who were pretty good, and had some of the Irish Dancers backing some of their songs. The dancers wigs were so funny, purposefully made so that they bounce up and ...

... mate was left with no nourishment except a 12 pack of beer, which Cotton generously left with her. Everyone who came into the saloon seemed to know Cotton and good-naturedly tolerated his efforts to work some scam on them. Fostered, I'm sure, by the free spending divers, a custom has taken hold in the Welcome Inn. Several suddenly wealthy divers were gathered at the far end of the long bar. Whenever it came time to order a new round they rolled high dice, the loser ...