On day 4, Wednesday, I awoke refreshed from my long sleep, ready to face any curvy roads the trip would throw at me. This day was another fine one, without the rain that had been forecast, so we had a marvelous wend from the ocean to the wine country, where we would stay with Matt and Wendie and Madrone before going to Kyria's for the Thanksgiving Feast.
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| View out our hotel deck on Wednesday |
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| Sunrise's opposite sky colors |
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| I put this here because it's all weirdly out of perspective |
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| Liked this trestle, and the sand actually squeaked when you walked |
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| Great surf day |
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| Pudding Creek flowing to the sea |
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| Pudding Creek meets the sea |
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| The surf comes in to fight the creek. Note the water patterns |
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| The surf is persistent. Note the different patterns. |
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| Trestle |
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| Walking across the trestle |
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| The coastal surf is mesmerizing. |
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| There were stalwart plants on this and other rocks, and not even ferocious waves could daunt them |
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| View up the coast |
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| Tide pool near Glass Beach |
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| The ocean is fabulous |
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| Glass heart from the beach |
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| Jeffery looks strong on the rock, but the surf looks stronger on the other rock |
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| Seals on the rock. We watched some swim, some climb out of the water onto the rock, and a couple slid off the rocks into the water again. |
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| Tower at a historic B&B |
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| A sign that made me smile |
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| A plethora of pampas grass |
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| The mouth of Noyo Harbor |
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| Looking towards Noyo Harbor |
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| The writing is all the names of the people in the photos. |
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| A fun roof on a garden temple |
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| Jeffery and the carved stones |
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| The North Harbor Trading Company building |
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| Guardian against the darkness |
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| Looking at the Noyo Harbor from our table at The Wharf restaurant where we finally found crab cakes. |
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| I got over a mile on my fitbit looking for this very lunch! |
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| On towards the central valley, we pass through the heart of Mendocino County |
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| Down into the east side of the Coast Range |
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| Through Sonoma County's north section |
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| Into the autumn tones of wine country |
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| New plantings, I assume |
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| Ahh, the Healdsburg area north of Santa Rosa |
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| While waiting for "the kids" to get home from work, we stopped at the Charles Schulz Museum |
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| Jeffery and Snoopy |
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| Woodstock |
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| Christo actually wrapped a Snoopy's dog house as a project |
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| Label from his prep sketch for the project |
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| Remember this? I do. |
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| Cowabunga! |
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| After a nice dinner at a Thai restaurant with Wendie's family, we attended a hockey game at the Charles Schulz Ice Arena, where Wendie's nephew was playing on the white team. |
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| Kelly is #74 in the slight left of center. |
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| (from left lower - Matt, Kevin, Georgia, Wendie, Jeffery / upper - Sunday, Mo, and Dennis |
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| Georgia and Kevin being funny! |
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| Wendie and grandpup Madrone on Thanksgiving Day. |
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| Strange sun beam in the sky over Matt and Wendie's house |
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| Toured the burned zone at Coffey Park, where so many lost their homes, and some their lives this past summer |
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| I am only showing this one more, because we felt like we were violating privacy as we drove around, so we didn't stay long out of respect. It was horribly affecting. |
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| Over the bay and across the San Rafael bridge to Kyria's house we go. |
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| Prepping for the feast |
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| Our table, dressed in the runner-quilt Kyria received from Grandma Sue just in time for the holiday. |
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| The Thanksgiving pork |
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| The turkey carves the roast pork |
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| Salud and Happy Thankfulness |
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| A different form of pumpkin desserts to keep tradition alive |
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| Another sun beam to finish the day. |
This was the end of the vacation; all but the return trip. We did stop off to see Grandma, Kathy, Sam, and Andrea in Vacaville on the way by, so we touched more family, which was nice. Otherwise, we made it home, resumed normal life, and stayed so busy, I'm only just now putting up this post!
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