Warning: I’m having a hard time concentrating today so it’s a very scatterbrained post you’re about to read.

After about ten days driving up the CA coast without the internet and very little phone reception I’m spending a couple hours here in Crescent City getting, (sort of), caught up.

It has become clear to me that I need to start up a page on this website dedicated to the places I’ve found to eat on the road. That will take some time though, and I’m afraid you’ll have to wait for it.

Pictures also will have to wait. I need to buy a new card reader since I’ve been planning on getting one anyway and my computer and camera aren’t talking to each other anymore. But honestly I haven’t been taking a lot of pictures like normal. Pictures simply don’t do justice to what I’ve been seeing the last week along the coast.

The last time I left San Diego it took me a couple days to really settle into the attitude of traveling with no real worry as to plans. This time it’s taken longer, possibly because I already had something of a route planned out already since I’m heading to Spokane for a tatting conference. It’s hardly much of a confining commitment, but between that and coordinating with friends I’ve been driving nearby I hadn’t really felt like I was getting into the travel attitude I strive for until just this last week.

It really sunk in yesterday when I was on way down to the Tall Trees Grove in Redwoods National Park. Skipping down the trail surrounded by these huge trees in a part of the park you need a permit to visit, (it’s free, just ask at the visitor’s center, definitely worthwhile). It’d been raining and cold earlier and was still cloudy, but you wouldn’t be able to see a blue sky through the canopy anyway.

Part of what made it nice also was that I recently read “The Wild Trees” by Richard Preston. One of the things I’d like to do more of as I’m traveling is to actually do some more research into the places I’m going before I actually get there. I’m a bit lazy with that and I don’t find out until after I’ve left a place some of the things I’ve missed.

Still, seen a lot. Is it really possible that I left LA only about three weeks ago?

This is what I love about travel. How is it possible that only a week ago I was in Point Reyes, two weeks ago I was hanging out with friends in the Bay Area and exactly three weeks ago I was sitting on the side of the road taking pictures of buffalo.

There is so much more I’d like to talk about here, many more things I’d like to do with this website, but right now I’m having trouble sitting still here, I’m ready to get back out there and I still need to do laundry before I leave town.

Categories: Travel