Thursday, August 23, 2012

Roadtrip-part 3- Ferndale, Mendocino, and the Skunk Train

 Next, we drove out to the charming Victorian town of Ferndale. It is surrounded by dairy farms and is called "Creamery City." I love this "dairy cake" with the John Deere tractor on top!
 The buildings on Main St. are all like this! I bet the local house painters are busy!
 Another storefront
 We stopped and had a huge and delicious bowl of chili and hot tea. 
(This was a nice change from being so hot at the beginning of our trip!)
 Love those redwoods!
 We couldn't pass up the "Drive Thru Tree"!
 This is the Headlands Inn B&B in Mendocino,  an East-Coast style town on the West Coast.
 Our room had a fireplace with everything ready for us. All we had to do was light it!
 The view out one of our windows
 Breakfast on our deck. They brought our breakfast to our room on a tray with china cups and saucers, flowers, delicious food and even a fuchsia on our granola bowl!
 The church in town
 We took the Skunk Train from Ft. Bragg 20 miles thru the redwoods to Northspur.
 We stopped and had a delicious tri-tip dinner with all the trimmings at the turn-around spot.
It was delightful to chug through the forest and take as many pictures as I wanted!

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