For fans of John Steinbeck, Charlie, and redwood trees . . .
. . . travels with Eli . . .
. . . and travels with KC.
If a tree falls, where would it fall?
Memories of the Avenue of the Giants Marathon, easily the prettiest marathon I've ever run.
. . . to bait motorists into the tourists shops filled with unnecessary plastic objects and t-shirts.
Better to support local businesses
such as the Woodrose Cafe in Garberville, where we might have been the only non-locals. With autographed photos of Joan Baez with the owner featured, the kind of accident that you hope happens when traveling.
Featured the following roof-top decoration.
The Mendocino area is best known as a producer of cannabis. The other is selling unnecessary items to tourists with more money that brains who shop as recreation. The metal dog is $165.
OK, the poodle is more expensive.
Innovative use for old paperbacks? Pay attention Country Bookshelf. Those reader copies should be a revenue stream.
Someday I'm gonna get me a pig!
Or something.
I guess you can counter the effects of the drugs with health food, made twice as healthy by twice the price.
How can any woman disappear into a shoe store for 45 minutes? Eli suffers an anxiety attack.
Traditionally, these towers that held water tans have been converted to rooms. In Mendocino, expensive rooms.
Perhaps not yet a room.
Highway 1, south of Mendocino
While late in the season, numerous cyclists were on the Pacific Coast Bike Route. This Australian couple started in Vancouver, BC, on the way to LA.
Matching cabins in the vineyard, northwest of Healdsburg.
Beginnings of a sculpture garden north of Geyserville.
Running Man?
Coyote. The head rotates.
Hands and Balls. But whose?
Similar to the Mendocino shop, perhaps the same Texas source, this roadside vendor's prices were about 1/3 of the Mendocino price. Location, rent, and taxes (what taxes?)
Nemo Found.
Clever street names in Healdsburg—Alleys 1 through 6.
Largest yucca I've seen, growing in Alley 1.
Cactus apples.
Another fine microbrewery.
Ringling's Circus Museum in Sarasota has nothing on this miniature reproduction of historic Healdsburg, about 1880, under construction by Jon, our wonderful Healdsburg host and master carpenter.
The rooms were 25 cents and 50 cents. Wonder what you got for the extra 25 cents?
Success mandated adding another product.
KC, Murphy, Pam, Eli, Larry, and Jon. People, it's 78F in Healdsburg, 38F in Bozeman, MT, where would you like to be on the 1st of November?
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