Ontheroad-Northern CA

Tuesday August 4-

It is quite difficult to pick out a hotel if you have never been to the area. We picked the Best Western that had an ocean view. It did but the building was across the highway from the ocean. The beachcomber was in the same price range and theie ocean views were actually on the beach.

There is glass beach in Fort Bragg. It used to be the town dump but the only relics from that period are pieces from the glass bottles which have been "sanded" smooth.

We walked around the artsie town of Mendocino. Lunch was the best food we have had since we started out. We went there because there is a guy walking around Sharon Heights wearing a tee shirt advertising Pattersons. The only thing that went wrong at that restaurant was daddy came out of the bathroom unbeknowst to me and then after a really long time myself and two men who were helping me kept banging on the men's room door. We made a quick exit when we discovered so we not have to meet the man from the toilet.

We took a windy(curvy) road(pretty at first but boring after the first half hour). Our destinatioln was the chandelier tree which you drive your car through a hole in the trunk. The woman in the SUV in front of got stuck but our Civic made if just fine.

There is beautiful Inn in this area that the Dinwiddie's had recommended that we see but probably would not want to stay in because it is expensive. David wanted me to have a room I could feel good about(one that has glass and china in the room instead of paper/plastic and thick towels. They had a special mini garret room which was not much more than a comfort Inn. We are he)ar in this wooded setting with flowered wallpaper, matching curtains and colonial repro furnitue.