REDWOOD FOREST

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2009
It's 9:00 AM Saturday Morning and we are checking out time....... just can not get out by 8:00 AM. Hungry. Must find a place to eat. Hungry. Need Coffee. Wilma is addicted to coffee. If we ever stop at your place, please offer her a cup of good, robust, cup of coffee. That will keep her going and smiling. She will be your friend forever. Non of this colored water called decaf..........REAL MAN SIZE ARC COFFEE.

Hopefully I can find a place soon....soon....Just outside San Fran. You guessed it. Got lost. How do you get out of this city. Twist and turns, dead ends... where's Mary (I call my GPS Mary..(Mary is my OLDER sister...she is always telling me where to turn-stop-and go) Okay I will turn it on and follow her directions........Hurray.........we are free....just crossed over the Golden Gate Bridge (Mary did it again-now turn her off--get tired of following her every direction) Now to find the closest town and find a place to eat.

How about Sausalito...looks like it's right over the bridge....close....turn right.....here....now....look out....it's... .steep...OKAY MARY...I mean Wilma.....OOPS....I need to buy gas....should have done it in San Fran....now they'll charge me an arm and leg....Hope they a have a gas station in this town.....steep..twisting turns.....down....down towards the bay.....where is the town.....Okay turn on Mary (GPS) "calibrating.route.....turn right and next corner.....then turn hard left........." Where's she taking us.....still can't find town are way out of this maze.....There....There is a man washing his car...ask him how to get out of this town......."Go one block down, turn left....stay on that street and it will take you back TO HWY`1."

Finally, on the road to freedom.....gas....and food.......Back on HWY 1. Breakfast......there on the map....MILL Valley is next. let's try it. "Mamas" looks like a good place to eat......Rustic looking.......Inside all covered with stuff.....old stuff....old upright piano.....dishes do not match....looks like they came from The Salvation Army. Food is good....reasonable.....elderly lady playing old tunes on piano...came in with customer.....plays good....must be local......time to go....."Where is HWY 1? .."Sir, can you tell us how to get back on HWY 1" "Turn around and go straight until you get to the ARCO station and then make a right turn and that is HWY 1 going north". (Lately I can't depend on MARY. (my GPS) I think I burned it out.......)

The drive along HWY 1 is a Coast Line Scenic HWY. Traveling is slow...up and down zig and zag.....but the view is out of this world. There is no way I could capture the beauty of the sky blending with the ocean.....the jagged rock formations...cliffs......with my small camera.....but take a look.......(again to get the full beauty of the photo, place cursor on photo and click. Photo will fill screen...scroll bars will appear...use scroll bar to get full panoramic view)


It took us 9 hours to travel the 225 miles from San Fran, CA to Garberville, Or.. That should give you an idea of fast one could go on HWY 1 along the CAL. coast.

BEGINNING OF REDWOOD FOREST-ME IN CAR
It's getting late....need to find a place to stop. Garberville, Or....looks like a "cheap"place to stop......Best Western is all filled up she says....try the motel at the other end of the town. (Garberville is only about 4 blocks long)
Looks clean......reasonable....checked in.......Bought Alfredo to carry out...ate in motel room....very nice.....

See you tomorrow....Still have 500 miles to go....to Judith.....