Tuna
Monday 26 February 2024
Today was a transit day to get from the lovely Sacramento to the coast, just a couple miles north of Fort Bragg. We only had two lots of mountains to go up and down and many, many, many miles of windy road through the redwood forests.
On the way there was a lake, a rather large lake and we thought it would be a good spot for lunch. Our naïve Australian expectation had us looking for a nice little park with picnic tables. There weren’t any. Every single bit of land that was lakeside had some sort of dwelling on it, and many of the dwellings were more shack like.
Eventually we found a spot where we could actually pull off the road where there was a concrete picnic table in the gravel, no grass here! The view of the lake through the chicken wire fence was ok and the cars and trucks going by on the road didn’t help the ambiance.
So, after scoffing down some lunch, we set forth again to drive on some more windy road. About 1km down the road there was a nice big grassy park with picnic tables and about another km on from that, another park, both of which would have made nice sports for lunch. I made The Albatross stop at the second one, just because. He threatened, out of spite, not to get out to the car. He did get out and then complained how cold it was. Ha ha ha, suck it up honey.
Then we drove on some more windy roads and got to Fort Bragg with over 1.5 hours until we could check-in. After stocking up on a few supplies and wandering slowly around the Safeway and getting in the way of the same woman about 12 times, including at the check out, we still had about an hour to wait until we could check in. Check in time over here is 4pm, but check out is 10am. Why does it take 6 hours to clean a house/apartment? We drove past our house, but it was clearly still being cleaned. So, we parked down the road and looked at the ocean for a little while.
Eventually, at our third drive by, the house was ready at 3.45pm. Very nice place and the sunset is awesome.
