Coastal Highway and Redwoods

The road through a redwood grove



Sasha showing Larry around a state redwood forest



A beach on the costal highway



The rugged Marin County coast



Sasha "Watch out! The water's totally cold. I'm not getting wet, duh. Like I'm out of here."



On Sasha's advice, Marsha merely dips a finger tip in the Pacific Ocean




Date: Sunday, June 20th
Day: 37
RV Miles: 3,894
Location: Petaluma, CA
Elevation: 71 ft

Had a real neat day today – we all piled in the car and took a drive towards the coast through some beautiful and dense redwood forests. Then down Route 1 along the coast toward San Franciso.

The redwood forests were totally bathed in shade. Virtually no sunlight makes it to the forest floor because the trees are so high (up to 300 feet). Along with the shade comes a cool damp feeling along with a quiet silence that even calmed Sasha down. Very peaceful.

Marsha went bonkers when we got to the coast and she had a few more blondillium monents before Larry could get the car down to a beach. The temperature along the ocean was in the high 50’s low 60’s and the ocean was very cold; notice the coats in the pictures. Marsha was going to stick her foot in the Pacific but she whimped out and only put the tip of one finger in. As you can see, Sasha didn’t want to have any part of a soaking due to a wave coming in.