West Coast Livin

The morning after the Mariners game we woke up early and sat in Bed to watch the US soccer game. The place we were staying at, the Sleeping Bulldog B&B, had a wall hung TV with one of those one shot coffee Kurig machines which was awesome when waking up for a 7am soccer game.

After the soccer game we went downstairs and were greeted with a enormous breakfast including muffins, fresh berries, Mexicali eggs, and fresh squeezed oj. It was glorious because it was all homemade that morning. As we were leaving, our host even gave us all the leftover muffins in a plastic bag to take with us.

Our next stop was down the coast, to Portland, Oregon. We only stopped in for a little while but got amazing Mexican food, went to "powells books", and found a craft brewery bar that doesn't ever have two of the same kegs in a row. For the short amount of time we were there, Portland seemed like an awesome town. Kind of an awkward place for a NBA team however... But if it works it works.

We wanted to camp on the coast that night but we tried to leave Portland around rush hour which delayed us quite a bit. We ended up making it to the Pacific Coast due west of Portland just before dark. We set up camp, took in the Ocean, and called it a night after a fire and star gazing.

Once we left camp in the morning the Coast was kinda misty in parts and really clear in parts. West coast people referred to this as the "June gloom" we later found out. An interesting contrast to the east coast humidity that we are used to.

We drove all day until we made it to the Redwoods National Forest. The trees were obviously huge. We got to stay among the trees and the campsite next to us set up their tent IN a tree base. We set up camp an left to go get food, but on the way we found a tree down which was taller and wider than Ben with his hands up. We were driving along the "Avenue of the Giants" with trees more than 100' tall so it made sense that their trunks we 15 feet and up in diameter.

The whole time in the redwoods, San Francisco was on the horizon. Jamula would be joining up with us again and my cousin, John, would be coming to the Giants game.