More Crescent City to visit.

We are just 20 miles from the Oregon border and will be moving up soon. But there are a few more things on the tour itinerary to visit before we go. The previous wagonmaster said the "Chart Room" resturant was wonderful so we had to go. Just out the window we saw Sea lions on a dock. I had a plate of steam clams and clam chowder.

Cheryl had a bowl of chowder!  This was a quaint little restaurant where locals hang out, situated right on the water. 

Dean stopped on the way out to enjoy the "Art Work"!  I told him he had to post this photo as he took too long enjoying the "art work"!.

Crecesent City Calif. and environs

Today we visited several sites we will take the guests on during the "tour" in Sept. We headed south on 101 to Trees of Mystery where there is a wonderful museum on many Indian tribes of the U.S. as well as a gondola trip up the mountail thru the redwoods. We then drove the 9 mile Newton B. Dury scenic by-way to drive the redwoods and also see Roosevelt Elk at Praire grove.

 Cheryl found a wonderful hike to Fern Canyon on the coast, so we drove a gravel road 4 miles to do the hike. There are five species of fern growing in this canyon. Very cool and inviting. It emptys right into the Pacific where we saw more bull elk in a swale.

HEADING UP THE COAST

Prior to leaving Santa Rosa we stopped at the Charles Schultz museum where Charlie Brown and company had their being. They have a cafe there where you can watch ice skaters pratice their moves.
 We are now in Crescent City on the Pacific where the weather is much cooler then inland. The route 101 highway is very hilly and curvey but beautiful coastal redwoods to drive thru and great ocean views here and there. I think our guests on the tour will be impressed!

Santa Rosa, California and environs

We are camping in the Sonoma County fairgrounds where we will bring the West Coast tour group in October. We are here for 4 nights scouting out places we will visit on our tour as well as the reunion group who will be here in late October. Today we drove a 75 mile Bodega Bay and Korbel Winery route. When we stopped at the tourist information place, they suggested we drive a few miles to a bluff over looking the Pacific and spot Gray whales comming up the coast. We were not dissappointed! We saw numberous whales, glad Cheryl brought her binoculars. What a sight!

 We drove back to town and had lunch of clam chowder and a crab meat sandwich. A beautiful drive up California 101 to head back inland to Korbel Champainge Cellars for a tasting. We will do a tour of the place when we come back down the coast during the tour. It has been very hot in Sonoma, 105 today. Very cool along the Pacific.

Kallie at Hoover Dam

We I stopped at Hoover Dam on our way to California.  Kallie was not too keen about the heat and wind at Hoover Dam so we only had her out of the car for a few minutes. 

Kallie in Utah

This is Kallie and Dean when we were in Utah.  She loved this area.  It was very warm about 100 and she loved exploring all the cracks and holes in the rocks.  She is a wonderful traveling animal.  We have yet to figure out if she is a smart cat or rather dumb.  She tags along with us without a complaint.  She rides in the car without a complaint.  And she always has to have the front seat when we are traveling down the road in our motorhome!

Worlds Largest Therometer!

We are still enjoying our travels.  On our way to Buelton, CA we passed through Baker, CA and had the opportunity of seeing the World's Largest theometer again.   We seen this several years ago traveling with our good friends Bob & Shirley either on our way to or from seeing the World's Largest Boulder.  We had lots of laughs and good memories.  All is going well, we were hoping to get a chance to stop in Pahrump and Palm Springs on our way west, but time did not allow it.  We will do that after our CA tours.