Category: California

There is beauty in decay. The sea-stacks, the rocky spires, the dark fins that rise against the waves all along this north coast were once not just bound to the land, they were the land. Where they sat for eons unnoticed, invisible amidst uniformity. But endless battering by the ocean waves ground them down, broke…

After a two-night stay under a roof to wait out rain, we had another briefly-open window in which to make a hop southward to a different roof, following the hop-when-we-can strategy we decided to adopt a week earlier in a parking lot in Orick. But we had pretty big doubts as to whether it was…

Day five our our ten(-plus?) day period of rain has us in a planned day of stasis. Once again, at least we were happy that the terrible forecast was correct, and that we had found a great place to stay inside during the all-day-and-night rain. The extensive library of DVDs available for “rental” (free to…

While we waited for the previous night’s rain to truly end, I walked across town to the laundromat to do a load. Rett finished up the cooking chores following our camp-stove breakfast (cooked out on the covered patio of our motel room, since our microwave was broken, but had bought a load of microwaveable food…

With our campsite sitting right on the Avenue of the Giants, it was the shortest distance I’ve ever experienced between leaving camp and being on a glorious cycling road. The Avenue continued just as it had ended the evening before, as did the forest-resort barely-a-towns that it connected. The day was short to beat another…