The Nomads

Temp: 20 degrees C

Sunny and Cool

Started out late headed for Eureka hoping to pick up bags there that I had ordered from Kawasaki in Santa Maria.

The highway was a rollercoaster the whole length of the coastline with some scary high cliff edge turns and strong cross winds but amazing scenery! One of the things that will always stay with us is a memory of the heavenly, ever-present aroma of the redwood cedars and the blue-gum eucalyptus that permeates the air and mixes with the salty sea fog and mist! It’s a heady perfume and a treat I will most definitely miss!

We stopped at the Redwood Forest Visitor center and had a nice long chat about travel and trees with the folks there, but I had to leave when they started to complain about how all the impoverished Mexican people were sneaking into the country and living off their tax dollars.

Another lasting impression I have of the California coast is looking around and seeing that all the hard, thankless, demeaning, dirty, miserable jobs were all being done by those same Mexicans everywhere we went!

On the same note:

What a shame that all along the coast we constantly saw logging semis rolling along with huge redwoods , barely able to get a whole tree on one trailer, every load another big hole in the historic old growth forest!

When we got to Eureka, there was no “Eureka!”.

The bags had been back ordered and the dealer didn’t bother to email us to notify us like he had agreed to do. We cancelled the order and moved on to the state park were we camped for the night.

Kilometres - Daytrip: 266 km total: 22,955

Gas: $18.34 Tolls: $0

Lodging: Patrick’s Point State Park $ 15

# posted by Richard and Susie @ 12:27 PM