Super 8 Motel - Fortuna

so the drive down 101 was beautiful, we drove through the heart of the national park and took a hike to what used to be the tallest tree in America, now just a 26 ft in diameter stump.
Fortuna had the same air crescent city had, but we needed to stop after a long day of driving up and down the forest, with all of it's twists and turns. We bolted out of this one asap!!!

Stayed in the Shoreline cottages if Fort Bragg last night and I wonder what all the noise on Trip Advisor was all about. According to some of the comments on there I should have expected to have a noisy and uncomfortable stay but the truth was a very long way from that. The room super clean and the bed was warm and comfortable; and there was a kitchen; and despite the near presence of Ca route 1 the only noise I heard was the redneck next ...

... in our massive bed we went to watch Ian play in a soccer match - they won!! In the afternoon we went back to the cider factory where they were celebrating their 100 year anniversary. There was a folk band playing (called Huckleberry Flint) and free hay rides around the orchards. We saw the biggest apples ever - like the size of my head!!! Drew and his family were so nice and friendly, it's not surprising their business is still running after 100 years!!

Simon: Next ...

... a road that winds through magnificent redwoods parallel to the 101), we finally arrived at the Super 8 after dark.

On arrival we were hoping that it was going to be nice as we had hit a very average Super 8 and a very nice Super 8 so far on our journey. This fitted in between the two and was a good base with a supermarket opposite us and a couple of gas stations at the end of the road.

With a little research on the internet we decided on a ...

... in Oregon and eventually arrived at the California border. Oh what a feeling. There are many small towns along this highway; some are quite touristy, while others appear to be serious working towns, either for lumber or for fishing. There was a town with a huge complex called Redwood Lumber and the terrific odour of freshly cut redwood made this section of the trip a pleasure to enjoy. Just inside California the road passes through ...

... resembles Paul's giant footprint). Babe measured 42 axe handles and a plug of chewing tobacco between his horns. He was found during the winter of the blue snow; his mate was Bessie, the Yaller Cow. Once, he helped Paul to straighten a road simply by pulling it. Like many myths, this explains a physical phenomenon. Bunyan's birth was strange, as are the births of many mythic heroes, as it took seventeen storks to carry the ...

... the ones entertaining them, not the other way around.Other than the cows, the campsite also had an awesome outdoor kitchen, heated hot tub and pool and a shop that had Boris' new favourite chocolate - Seattle Chocolates Truffle Bar. During the entire week, we also met wonderful people. We met writers, traveling bikers and one great family in particular. The writer we met actually wrote 2 autobiographies, about how he had to overcome being ...

... to park your car, and FREEZING COLD. it was foggy, and it even rained during the night and a bit in the morning. because my brother had to finish his assingment (he's is working on his masters currently) we were planning on staying there for two nights, but due to the terrible weather, we left early the next morning. as we drove south, the weather didnt improve, and our car trouble from the previous days did not improve either. as i recall, the following happened: a metal ...

... old ones!














We stopped at Crescent City which had been hit by a Tsunami about 100 years ago but the worst account of a tsunami was in the 1700's when a 50 foot wave hit the Oregon coast 20 minutes after an ...

... staff were relatively friendly, but predictably the guests ranged from 150 year old Buddhist Indian to a somewhat fruity couple from London. There was an oldish woman to who seemed to think 9.30 was a sensible time to go to bed and couldn't understand how the rest of the people weren't falling asleep in their chairs like she was. Chatted to the Buddhist and an ameteur HD film maker about universe and its ...