Month: November 2015
Back To San Francisco
Our final day of traveling in California was to drive from Fort Bragg back to San Francisco. It would have only been a few hours if we had driven straight down the highway, but of course, we took advantage of the time to continue our exploring. The coastal road down Highway 1 is spectacular. There […]
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The Forgotten Coast
When we looked at the local tourist brochure for sights to see around Eureka, one seemed to stand out – a driving trip through a quaint little town called Ferndale and then onto a deviation from the main Highway 101 to the ‘Forgotten Beach’. The first part of this drive took us to one of […]
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Redwoods and Timber Barons
Eureka, in northern California, where we are staying foe a couple of days is the largest coastal city between San Francisco and Portland. The entire city is a state historic landmark because of its hundreds of significant Victorian homes and commercial buildings. A few miles south of Eureka, down Highway 101 is the famous drive […]
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Oregon and California Coasts
By this morning, most of the rain from the last few days had cleared and today was much brighter and sunnier. We left Coos Bay quite early and headed south down Highway 101 towards the city of Eureka. We have been following a variation of a self-drive itinerary published by the Oregon Chamber of Commerce. […]
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Coos Bay
We drove down to the historic town of Coos Bay on the Oregon coast yesterday with a few deviations on the way. On leaving Portland, we got confused by the some of the freeway directional signs and in places, there were only a few hundred metres to get from one side of a 60 mph […]
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