Marty's Travels

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Fort Bragg, CA

Fort Bragg is along CA-01, the Pacific Coast Highway, in Mendocino County. I’m glad I finally made it out here, but the challenge of the roads here hints that it might be a while before I return.

When I sat down to update my blog, it wouldn’t allow me to log in. I did some obvious things, then sent a note off to tech support. Today it’s fixed, the hosting service updated my version of WordPress, which I wasn’t anxious to do, but now I’ve got the new version. It’s quite different, so we’ll see how it works.

All roads out here are slow and winding, figure an average of 30 mph; some curves are 15 mph. The surface is good, and there are passing lanes and turnouts, but it’s still a lot of work.

The weather has been unusually nice, clear without even a breeze along the coast, flat seas. I’m parked at an RV place in the center of town with a view to the west. And it’s Whale Festival time this weekend; supposedly it’s the best time to see migrating gray whales go north. I haven’t seen any, but I wasn’t really looking. I’ll be on the coast for a while and am sure I’ll spot some soon.

Ten miles south of Ft Bragg is the town of Mendocino, an absolutely lovely historic town overlooking a beautiful bay. They have a great book store, and the new retail pot shop overlooks the bay and features product from just down the road. Mendo living would be very nice. Well, until you needed to go somewhere. Best just to stay out here, Ft Bragg has everything you need.

I continue north on Tuesday, hopefully reaching Eureka unless the road is too slow to make it in a few hours.