A Few More Days

I have been offline for three days; the young woman in the office (Brittany is from Sahuarita, goes to school here) hooked me up to the office internet. I will try to catch up with what we have been doing.

There are some very fun bookstores in Old Town Eureka. This is one of them.

Also managed to drive by a yard sale--well, not completely drive by.

We took a drive out to Samoa and discovered some dunes. We had never gone all the way out before.

There is now a bridge over the Eureka Slough. A pathway connects the RV park to the parking lot of the nearby Target--very convenient! We have made a few trips over there, once just for the exercise.

Saturday we drove to Mckinleyville for an estate sale, back to Eureka for a very fun rummage sale where we both found things we couldn't live without (as my mom says), and after lunch Cary took me another quilt store where I also found a few things I really needed. Today is our 31st anniversary, but decided against going out for supper. I fixed veggie meatballs, salad, wine and we bought pie for dessert at Target. Maybe we will go out tomorrow.

More Eureka

I promised to explain our cable issue. Unlike every other RV park where we have stayed over the years, cable here is now available only with a box of stuff we have to check out from the office. It is not the idea of the owners of the park; it is the idea of the cable company. We, to put it mildly, had no idea what to do. So the very helpful office person--Rachel--came over and attempted to get it working for us. She tried two different sets of boxes of wires, etc. before it was time for her to get off work and go home. It looked like this.

She came back the next morning with a third set which she had tried out in her office first. No luck. She called the cable company. We thought, why in the heck are we even concerned--if we can just use the antenna and get some sort of TV (we wanted to see the debates tonight), we don't even have cable at home. So we thanked Rachel for her troubles and decided it was just our curse. TV comes in just fine--we could have even watched "Perry Mason" if there weren't more interesting things to do in town!

This rare 1941 Chevrolet was parked right in front of the thrift shop when we got back from a visit to Joann's fabric store and a pastry shop. Very cool.

Another stop at a quilt store after lunch, and while I was there, Cary went over to investigate this poor car from the Great Race...

They were supposed to be having lunch in Crescent City by now, maybe even be on their way to Bend, Oregon...I don't think she will make it.

This was my view out our back window as I sat and read until time to think about supper. It is very foggy now. Not sure of the plans for tomorrow.

Eureka

Leaving Lodi at the time we did was probably not our greatest idea. But we woke up and got ready, so that is what we did. After an hour and about 10 minutes, we had gone only 39 miles. Rush hour traffic into Sacramento!

We eventually broke free and made some progress. My camera, for the last few years, no longer sorts my pictures by date. It just lumps them all into 1980--with all the others it has put into 1980. So I do not know when we passed what place.

This is a rice paddy.

Sunflowers grew next to corn fields--we could have been in Kansas!

Interesting hillsides

Clear Lake is huge and very beautiful.

Two ladies rode by the place where we were eating lunch. I am not sure what their vehicles were called, but I found them especially interesting because they were passing the car below, and many more after this one! (Thanks to Susan who identified not only the two-wheeled jog car, but also the Haflinger horse!)

This vehicle is a participant is something called The Great Race (https://www.greatrace.com/news/2019-great-race-riverside-tacoma.html) an annual event, that this year is going from Riverside, California to Tacoma, Washington. Cary talked to this man and found out they will be spending tonight in Eureka--and so are we!

Beautiful drive, but very hard on the driver from Willets to Eureka. Lots of ups and downs. We were on the road eight hours and very glad to get to the campground.

After supper we did take a drive downtown to go look at the cars lined up. I just took a few pictures--too many to do it right.

There were 120, one from Japan--a Fairlady; a Parisienne, which is a Canadian Pontiac; a racecar from 1906(!); I wish I could remember more. It was really fun!

Cary is dozing in the recliner, so I will be winding this up for now. The story of the camp host trying to hook up our cable will have to wait for tomorrow!

Monday in Lodi

Yesterday was Bakersfield. It has unsecured wifi, and because of that I could not get online with this computer. The same thing happened last year with my old computer because I had just purchased/updated my security. I guess this new laptop comes with some security for some amount of time. I could not figure out how to temporarily (at least) get rid of it so I could go online. Maybe I will Google it when I am done here. It was easy enough last year.

Our RV park was the usual Orange Grove RV, in an orange grove. The weather was not only hot, the air quality was pretty awful too. My cousin who taught drama in high school here retired a year ago, moved back to Arizona because his wife was really suffering. Apparently Bakersfield is in some sort of a basin that holds onto the smog from L.A. I had a headache starting about an hour outside of town, lasting till around 2:00 a.m.

We got to Lodi about 1:00 p.m., Flag City RV, disconnected, went for fuel and a found a few items at Walmart. Including an easy-to-fix supper, since it is pretty darned hot here too. But we are just a few hours from Eureka where we will be changing into jeans and having clam chowder for lunch.

I got the above pictures from the Internet, but managed to get this one as we drove away in the morning.

Kingman

Cary doing the last minute things that need to be done before we can depart this morning!

Except for the time we started and the weather conditions, today's beginning of our trip is almost identical to the one we started last year on July 12--the rest stop for lunch, buying fuel and eating at Calico's restaurant--even getting salmon for supper and buying a salad for tomorrow's supper at a nearby grocery store! We are at a different RV park: Sunrise RV, where we stayed on the last day of the trip last year. 

Something different at the rest stop--a boy had a pet owl--it looked like a snowy owl. I wonder if that is even legal. He said it was two or three months old. I did not have my camera handy, rats!