The Pacific Ocean...

After a good night's rest, I fixed us a great breakfast of eggs, sausage, fried potatoes, onions, and peppers.   It was really good! Christie and I got the camp broke down and packed up as we had a long drive ahead of us. The drive today was going to be a twist fest. I wondered how my vertigo was going to react. Our first destination was Redding, California.  Redding is a good-sized city in northern California. Again gas prices were out of sight. 

We headed out toward Douglas City and then headed north to Helena on Highway 299. We followed beautiful mountain rivers that had a lot of rafters on them. The water was crystal clear and looked so refreshing.  We also ran into a lot of highway construction so we had a lot of downtime. 

In many areas the scenery was breathtaking. We still had a long way to go before reaching the coast. Lots of twists and turns and more construction.  Thankfully no sign of fire damage here. 

Finally, we turned off of 299 onto the 101 highway up the California coast and our first sight of the ocean did not disappoint.  Waves crashing into the shoreline like battering rams against the rocks. What a sight. Too bad it was just for a moment. and it disappeared from sight. We drove up the coast trying to find a place to stay as I had not made any reservations. All the state parks were full. We finally made it to a place called Elk Country RV Campground near Orik, California.  We got our tent set up and secured and headed back toward Trinidad for dinner.  

We ended up at Cher-Ae Heights Casino and Bingo near Trinidad, in their very nice restaurant looking out over the ocean and a beautiful sunset.  Dinner was wonderful and the meal gluten-free. I had a salad that had golden beets. I had never had golden beets before and they were delicious!. It was also my first time to have Bananas Foster.  Very yummy!  A sign in the restroom let people know they used recycled wastewater for the flushing of the toilets.  Interesting! It was interesting that dinner was more reasonable than gas. 

We made our way back to our campsite and got the dogs all settled in and called it a day.  We were looking forward to the next day's adventure. The California Redwoods!