Sunshine today (May 28) and lots of up and down through the mountains of the Trinity National Forest. We ran into “Bigfoot” in Willow Creek and passed some beautiful views.
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Working our way down to Eureka we ran into more curves than Dallas Braden has in his bag and we finally found some real “happy cows” – the one’s near SF are in feed lots and are not happy!
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We dropped into Eureka right at lunch time and found a open parking space directly in front of the Lost Coast Brewery. It was fate . . . or something. We had a great lunch, bought some shirts, etc. and added this to our “do it again” list.
Check out their website if you are feeling a little dry. I think that they have a good time here on most nights. If we can get this parking space again we may have to stay longer!
Appetites taken care of we headed south towards Humboldt Redwoods State Park. At least one of the major campgrounds here has been closed thanks to Arnold and the California legislature and more are threatened.
We stayed in the Albee Creek Campground 
which is a little hard to find . . . the sign pointing to it was under the shadow of a bridge on the 101. If you see a sign that points to Honeydo head that way. The redwoods are always inspiring, contemplative – even Presley was a bit reserved.
The camping was a little muddy from the rains but we (unlike many others) had dry wood and a pleasant cocktail hour! Plus here were coin operated showers and we were a couple of days over due. The major problem for me in all this was a sacroiliac that was limiting my walking to about 20 steps at a time.
This was the first major trip of the season so naturally I forgot things. No extension cord so no American flag lights for Memorial Day. No fire starter – thank goodness the wood bought at Safeways the year before was dry! No olives for Martinis – how gauche. And I had to buy ice as I didn’t pre make it with my little ice cube thingies.
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Tags: Bigfoot, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Lost Creek Brewery, Willow Creek
