This past weekend Jack, Coco and I left Portland for our next port-of-call, San Francisco, California. It's about a 12 hour trip by car and we really enjoyed the winding road and the rolling hills surrounding Highway 101. For you baby boomers, I kept hearing the theme song from Bonanza in my head as we drove along. It's such a big country out there.
Along the coast the weather was rainy, gray and foggy so we didn't spend a lot of time taking pictures or walking along the beach.
When Highway 101 turned inward in Humboldt County, the route was called the Redwood Highway and it was primarily a 2 lane highway. It was slow going but the scenery made up for the annoyance. Since we broke the drive into two days we had the time to take the even slower scenic by-way called Avenue of the Giants. I had to keep reminding myself that we weren't in a hurry. Jack, who is so much more laid back, really enjoyed being the passenger and pointing out the biggest trees. It's mindboggling to think that some of these trees have lived between 500 and 1000 years!
Jack and I enjoyed walking through the trees (it's kind of spooky and mysterious in a good way) and talking about what was going on in history when these trees were saplings.
We think that maybe Coco enjoyed the forest most of all!
Coco looks SO CUTE! An especially good haircut. Miss you guys!
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