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Summer Break Days 9–11: The Comforts of Home

30 June 2023 • 1758 km / 1092 mi (map)

Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 1 July 2023
California 38

The plan was to spend a couple of days on the California coast and then work our way up through Crater Lake and Bend, Oregon, before heading home.

A small white wooden church with a brown shingled roof and a tall black steeple topped by a cross, standing in a field of dry golden grass behind a wire fence. Rolling green and tan hills dotted with trees rise behind it under a clear blue sky.

Nicasio, California

We enjoyed a cool and misty drive up the coast. (Both of us enjoy that kind of weather. Weird. I know.)

A long, empty sandy beach stretches into a fog-shrouded distance along the ocean, where lines of white surf break against the shore, with eroded sandy bluffs and green coastal vegetation in the foreground under an overcast gray sky.

Point Reyes National Seashore, west of Inverness, California

A winding two-lane road with a yellow center line curves through rolling, dry-grass hills toward a scattered cluster of ranch buildings and barns under an overcast gray sky. Cattle graze across the open pastures, with a stand of dark cypress trees on a hillside in the distance and wildflowers in the foreground.

Point Reyes National Seashore, west of Inverness, California

A windswept coastal ranch nestled among wind-sculpted cypress trees and a cluster of red and white farm buildings, set in rolling golden grasslands under an overcast gray sky, with fog-shrouded ridges and a headland meeting the ocean in the distance.

Point Reyes National Seashore, west of Inverness, California

A misty coastal estuary with a calm tidal inlet winding past grassy flats, backed by a low hill fringed with wind-shaped cypress trees, all under a heavy blanket of gray fog that obscures the ridgeline.

south of Tomales, California

We spent a night in this adorable watertower cottage (AirBNB) near Mendocino, which I highly recommend.

A weathered cedar-shingled cottage with a steep slate roof topped by a round wooden water tower on a raised platform, surrounded by wildflowers, tall grass, and a backdrop of dense evergreen forest under an overcast sky.

near Albion, California

When we left Albion, it was delightfully cool (13°C / 55°F), but as we started over the mountains, it became a whole different story.

A herd of black and reddish-brown cattle graze in a field of golden dry grass in front of a weathered wooden barn, with oak trees and a large spreading oak nearby, backed by an oak-covered hillside under a clear blue sky.

east of Lucerne, California

We were already thinking of abbreviating the trip, but when the car’s thermometer registered 41.5°C / 107°F near Redding, we decided to cut short and head for the comforts of home. Aside from this drive-by photo of Mount Shasta, it was all freeway miles.

The snow-streaked peak of Mount Shasta rises above a dense forest of green conifers under a deep blue sky dotted with puffy white clouds.

west of Mount Shasta, California

Bye for now until our next adventure!

Half Moon Bay, California, to Poulsbo, Washington · 1758 km / 1092 mi
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Into British Columbia →

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