THE SEA EVENTUALLY
BAD MOON RISING
SEA LIONS
SPIDERMAN
MILES FROM ORDINARY
GREY WHALE SKELETON
GRRRR
HOORAY BOOK SALE
The Pacific Coast Highway is something you have to experience to understand. Sure the views are magnificent. Sure the winding turns are treacherous. Sure lunatics pass you illegally at break neck speeds. But the one thing that sums up the PCH is that it makes time disappear. Somehow, driving 50 miles takes 4 hours. And that time is passed, observing small towns, cows, flowers, mountains, birds, endurance driven bicycle riders, and breathing in the sweet salty air from the mighty Pacific. Aside from one another, music has been our closest companion on the road.
Inclined to dilly dally, we make probably too many stops. This may be a reason it has taken us 4 months to cross this nation, but as the saying goes, it's not the destination that matters, but how you get there. And we are getting there by building a library. The Coast Community Library has a monthly book sale for four hours on the last Sunday of each month. Lucky for us, we drove through their small town during this incredible small window. They had a staggeringly incredible deal we couldn't pass up: fill up a brown grocery bag with whatever you liked for $5. We salivated as we selected an epic garden guide published by Readers Digest, the book of complete Fairy Tales, and in addition to others, works of Phillip Roth, Thomas Friedman, Kate Chopin. The trouble with buying books in every city is that our car is really starting to fill up. In a worst case scenario, we'll have to learn to drive while balancing books on our heads.
Today was the last day of camping until we start wwoofing tomorrow, so we took advantage by going to MacKerricher State Park. Situated in Mendicino County, it is right on the coast. Its favorable soil and climate conditions make it a suitable home for a wide variety of plant communities and wildlife. In the harbor you can watch grey whales migrate, but we weren't here the correct time of year. We did however see seals and/or sea lions. They are similar creatures, but sea lions have more pronounced ears and wider webbed feet. They jump up and down in the water quite quickly so it's awfully difficult to get a clear look at them. We also enjoyed an evening stroll along the boardwalk out to Laguna Point, and drank a bottle of red with noodle soup for dinner.
PITCHING A TENT
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