February 12, 2016

We decided to make a break for the coast today, right after Bill had one more morning surf session.

We slowly started making our way down the coast of Highway 1 – we were denied this drive on our 2010 trip due to terrible weather –so it was important to both of us that we do it this time –

The drive was a little foggy, but what I could see of the ocean looked brilliantly blue, strong, powerful and somewhat threatening as the waves crashed over the giant rocks.

We felt we should stop before dark with the roads being so windy and having no shoulder or guard rails at all and I don’t want to think about where you are going if you go off the road….yikes…

So we came to an adorable little town called Mendocino – we had time to walk around downtown and take a short hike along the cliffs (me a little reluctantly) to watch the pure power of the waves as the water pounded against the cliff bottoms!

We had a tricky time finding somewhere to pull in for the night, so we checked with a local business owner and he showed us some overflow parking in a field and that is where we stayed unbotheredJ