May 8, 2010

Feeling better we rode up to Mendocino, CA. to visit Eve an old friend of Ken's.
We are staying 2 nights at the beautiful Hill House Inn, B&B and our room overlooks the ocean.
We left Salinas outside Monterey at 9:00am it was a beautiful day for a ride and headed north travelling through Gilroy, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley crossed the San Rafael Bridge over the Bay and you could see San Francisco off in the distance. It was a calm day not much wind and clear viewing the lush green rolling hills. Lunch was in Petaluma, wine country. The ride through Santa Rosa, Sonoma Valley was so beautiful passing vineyard after vineyard. Highway 128 went through fantastic hills with vineyards, farms, and unbelievable redwood trees. We did stop and visit Hendys Woods a State Park where we walked around the largest and most amazing Redwood trees. You can stand inside the base of the trees, we took lots of pictures and continued on to Mendocino where we met Eve who lives right there in the town of Mendocino and at one time lived in North Conway. She recommended this old, quaint B&B with our room looking down the cliffs out to the Pacific Ocean.
We had dinner at "Little River Inn", a favorite of Eve's and the views sitting at our table were spectacular watching the sun go down.