Day 11- Santa Barbara, home sweet home

Another late start, then drove to Santa Barbara.  Enjoyed the harbor, had lunch and a photo session, the did a driving tour of Santa Barbara.

Made it home.  After a little break at home, late nengmyun dinner at Chungkiwa. Poor Natalie cried on our drive back home

Day 10- Carmel, Pismo

James slept in a bit, so ended up skipping Monterey.

Carmel

Skipped Bixby bridge

Pismo again

Bundled Up

cuz Mommy wants a photo shoot on the chilly & windy pier

Day 9- longest Drive, Golden Gate

Made it to the Bay Area, & stayed at vomac

Day 8- Redwood, Cresceny City

Day 7- Avenue of Giants, Eureka

Avenue of the Giants, a 31-mile drive through redwoods by the Eel River. few hours if you decide to get out of your car and ponder the trees- chimney tree, random groves, founders tree hiking loop, & anticlimactic immortal tree. Got back on 101 N for hour drive to Eureka.  Late lunch at Somoa House, menu was roast beef. Giant loaf was amazing.  Saw the Victorian mansion, then sequoia park garden, & walked the sequoia Park.  Never did the wandering of city’s Old Town and Waterfront, a bit of a ghost town. Checked into hotel, New York style pizza & buffalo wings.  Went to bed early! Actually woke at midnight to wash up

Day 6- Mendocino

Mendocino

Fort Bragg

Highway 1 sunset

Late checkin 

drive to Mendocino, scenic curvy drive on 128 thru wineries & Navarro state park, with stop at apple farm.  check out point arena lighthouse, lunch at egghead fort Bragg, then back to Mendocino headlands state park, glass beach in fort Bragg, then sunset drive up highway 1,  to leggert drive thru tree closed, then 101 to hotel for late check in -