Musings

Week Two - did I mention surf?  

and lighthouses?

The joy of traveling in the off season: that small white dot on the far right (above) is our
motorhome - the only vehicle visible for miles around.

Love the sun-kissed wind-blown wave tops:

and the abundance of foam:

Tricky cliffside coastal driving, amazing views:

and seaside lunch stops.

The sun dipping into that endless swallowing sea...

Gone, but not forgotten...

A slight detour inland along Redwood Highway to the Avenue of the Giants - narrow roads,
magnificent trees:

The Mattole Road leads out of the redwoods to the coast - our "not to scale" map gave us no 
indication of the length, condition, beauty of what lay ahead.  Three hours of the most remote
California coast (who knew that California even had a remote coast).

Fortunately, the motorhome was safe and sound at an RV park in Arcata (near Eureka) - this 
road was a challenge even by car.  But worth it (says me, not the driver).  Almost no cars, 
a handful of farms, lots of grazing cows and sheep; a rugged mountain road that dipped
to skirt the ocean before rising for the next switchback climb.

Here's what we found - after the fact - online:  "there’s one area of the coast that’s so rugged,
so remote, that road builders simply didn’t try.  This area is known, appropriately enough,
as the Lost Coast."  

Lost no more, back on the I-5, we head on...