Long Road to Eureka
We covered 382 miles today from Monterey to Eureka. The original plan was to continue our Pacific Coast highway journey from a few years ago which ended in Monterey. After taking over 2 hours to get from Monterey to San Francisco, we abandoned that since we still had a couple of hundred miles to go to Eureka. We went up the 101 and were pleasantly suprised by mile after mile of smooth, rolling highway between hundred foot forests. Well, okay, it was fun for the driver. Mary was singing the back seat blues after being in the car for 7+ hours.
We started out in the 60 degree coastal weather, drove inland for a while in 90-100 degree sun and then wound up back in the cool coastal fog. A local said this is the way it works. When it's really hot inland, it fogs up at the coast. Cool! :)
Here's the Pigeon Point lighthouse south of San Francisco.
Jimbo and Mary on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Zooming through the redwood forest.
Finally, back into the cool fog.
