Last Legs of Our Road Trip

We finally arrived in Mendocino just before dark.  We stayed in a B&B, just off of Hwy 1.  It was the...Josiah Grindle House?  Joshua Grindle House.  It was quite lovely.

 After all those hours on the road, it was nice to sit in the Adirondack chairs and just absorb the lovely gardens and their birdlife.

 Despite it being August, everything was blooming.  So different from home, where the heat pounds everything into submission.

 I imagine turning this into a quilt...one day, some day, in the far distant future.

We had a nice dinner in town, and a lovely breakfast in the morning.  We then checked out and drove to the overlook, to see the ocean view.  It was grey and foggy and nothing like the sparkling blue water of previous days.

 The town has water towers throughout.  Perhaps that helps to keep everything so green and lush.

 Up the road a bit, we stopped at the Sea Glass Museum, where we learned that Sea Glass Beach (in Fort Bragg) used to be the dump.  That's why there is so much sea glass to be found on its shores.  The glass is in small pea-sized bits at this point, but it's still worth checking out.  Maybe you'll be the lucky one to find that treasured piece of purple glass.

 The sentries here were crows, not sea gulls.  Interesting.

 And it was cool enough for poppies to still be in bloom.

 We stopped for lunch at this burger place.  Paul Bunyan eats here?  We must be headed to redwood country!

And so we were.  I guess I'll leave the last leg until next time.  Hope you're enjoying our travels!