We spent Wednesday through Saturday with Jeff and Bev visiting botanical gardens near UC Berkeley, driving to Monterey to check out the fam camp (not impressed), stopping in Hollister to visit Jeff and Bev's son David and family, and visiting a 100 year old estate and gardens in Woodside. And through it all we did our fair share of eating and enjoying the fruit of the vine.

Sunday morning we headed north to San Francisco and across the Golden Gate Bridge to drive through some of the wine country and then make our way out to the coast. As was the case during our entire trip, the weather was beautiful. We spent Sunday, Monday, and half of Tuesday driving along Highway One up the coast of California and Oregon. Is there anything more beautiful?

We stayed at Fort Bragg on Sunday night and upon departing on Monday morning, we drove through McKerricher State Park which is where we tent camped with the Schulers and the Mendozas about 23 years ago. I have never been so cold!! After 3 days of camping there, bundled in coats and blankets, we drove inland and were welcomed to the valley by scorching temperatures approaching 100 degrees!! That was a long time ago, but I still remember.

After staying in Brookings, Oregon on Monday night, we continued north to Florence where we cut across to Drain, Oregon to pick up I-5. That was a beautiful drive with the first part of it paralleling the Umpquah River and Mother Nature providing a palette of fall colors on the trees.

As we were traversing this route, we noted a campaign sign for Representative Bruce L Hanna. Now I have relatives in that part of Oregon named Hanna, and upon getting home and checking the internet, sure enough, Bruce is my cousin's son. He was appointed to the House of Representatives to fill a vacancy and now is running on his own. I don't know of any other relative who is/was a politician so I will wish him luck.

We both slept well last night and were glad to be home. That will last about 2 days and we will have itchy feet again. I do want to get out in the motor home for a few days just because this is such a lovely time of year and the campgrounds are virtually empty.

Ciao