Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Eureka!

Travel Itinerary
Santa Rosa, CA to Napa, CA via 101S $ 121N
Napa, CA to Eureka, CA via 1N
Eureka, CA to Redding, CA via 36E
It was supposed to be like 9 hours, but we pretty much drove all day and well into the night, 450 Miles


Adventures!


This is what Napa looks like...






Hm, I wonder if they make wine here?


Then we drove along the coast on 1N.  We stopped at a whole bunch of pretty beaches, then somehow ended up deep in the woods.










So after a lot of driving and beach walking we end up in Eureka.  Upon arrival we find out that the Walmart on the map is not actually built yet, AND a law has recently been put into place that doesn't allow people to park overnight on the streets.  So we go into KMart to ask them if we can park there.  Well they say yes, but are kind enough to let us know that the police have been really cracking down on overnight parkers and hand out tickets pretty freely.  Well the next Walmart is an hour and a half north, or we can drive three hours inland to Redding where there's a small city with YMCAs and coffee shops.  
There is, honestly, NOTHING out here.  So, we take the risk and drive through a national forest in the middle of the night for a lot longer than three hours.  Needless to say, there were deer, rabbits, stray dogs, and fog.  We made it out without killing anything, including ourselves, which is the most we can ask for.  
No driving tomorrow.

Marissa

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