CAMPGROUND
VEGAN MARSHMALLOWS
WE DON'T GET IT!
DOUBLE VISION
We left this morning and headed north with our eyes set on Patrick's Point State Park, and made it to our destination, but not without several stops along the way. As a parting gift from LeVin, Eric gave us several bottles of wine. This was a lovely gift that we plan to enjoy, however there wasn't room in the car for the box with the bottles he gave us so we decided to ship them home. We thought we could outsmart the system by purchasing wine packaging materials from a winery and mailing them in a box via UPS. We purchased the proper materials from a winery we passed en route and arrived at a UPS store only to find out they won't ship alcohol. To add to salt to the wound, they sold significantly better and safer packaging at half the price. Nightmare! We managed to sort things out and the good news is the wine, ahem ahem, bottles of "oil" we mean, will make it back to the East Coast.
The wine fiasco took a while, but our longest stop was in Arcata at the Co-op. We scanned the store and were too overwhelmed to figure out a plan for dinner so instead focused on satiating our stomachs with lunch. There was plenty of hot food, a large salad bar, and prepared food to choose from and somehow still, it was nearly too many choices and too much to handle. It took us 25 minutes to decide on lunch. We finally did, and enjoyed our picks. We then spent an additional half hour walking around in circles trying to figure out what to do for dinner. We were going to camp, but didn't want to make a big production of dinner since we'd be arriving a little late. We ate a late lunch so wouldn't be starving, but would need something before the night was over. Supermarket shopping gives us severe anxiety, especially in health food stores where options are nearly endless for us. In the end, we decided s'mores was the most appropriate dinner since we located grahams, vegan marshmallows (no gelatin), and local gourmet chocolate. We tend to err on the side of gourmet for everything...why not s'mores?
Patrick's Point is a 640 acre park in the heart of California's coastal redwood country and campsite 120 was perfect. We set up shop and got a fire going after a nice walk to the beach during a light rain. It was too cloudy for a nice sunset but it was peaceful and serene to sit on a large piece of driftwood and listen to the waves lap the shoreline. Dinner was outstanding. Jen hasn't had s'mores in what seems like a million years and found the novelty of eating a marshmellow crisped on a stick over a fire, atop a graham and chocolate was gooey and thrilling.
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