Oregon and California Coast

As we left Medford, we decided to drive down the coast highways to our first stop in San Jose to see the grandchildren. Packing the car was a fun challenge, where did all those bags come from!
We drove north on I5 and then headed towards Coquille to visit a long time friend and natural home builder and teacher.

 This was our tiny house for the night.

 Our friend, Ianto, preparing an evening meal in their outdoor kitchen. The majority of the ingredients were from their large organic garden.

We are so privelaged to live with such a magnificent coast on our doorstep.

We just had to stop and get a lunchtime pizza at a favorite place in Brookings harbor. Just the art graffiti on the walls alone is worth the stop.

Stopping in Fortuna was a good choice and a chance to visit Ferndale, Victorian houses and all.

The gentleman riding this BMW bike and sidecar had flown from Kentucky to Seattle to pick it up and was now riding it back to Kentucky.
From Ferndale we decided to take the coast road out to Point Mendocino since we had never visited that part of the coast. It was an amazing journey, very steep roads, expansive views that were difficult to capture in a photo and quiet, everywhere, just the wind and singing birds.

I tried the panorama feature on the camera and my apologies to my SOPF friends for the non level horizon!! This image is only half of the panorama that faced us when we got down to sea level.

 Later in the week we headed further south with a lunch stop in Mendocino, clear skies all the way.

We also drove down Hwy 1 from Willets and headed back to Hwy 101 at Jenner. I had forgotten what a twisty road hwy 1 is.

We also spent most of a day in San Francisco, lunch with a special friend and a visit to the Asian Art Museum. We are using a Garmin GPS system that we have affectionately named Greta and so far she has been pretty good, though she seems to get a little testy if we divert to a road that we know works, but  Greta seems not to agree that will fit her plans.