Showing posts with label Petrolia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Petrolia. Show all posts

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Winding Roads, Winding Stories

My mother is here visiting for about three weeks.  Today I decided to take her for a drive along the 30 mile road to Petrolia.  I've been down this road many times, especially since I have been doing medical support for the Tour of the Unknown Coast century bike race.  And, I first wrote about it when we initially moved here almost 4 years ago now.


Now with the new Jeep, it was time to take the road again...


And it was so worth it, if just for the views...



Looking North toward Cape Medocino
the Westernmost point in the lower 48

Mattole River meeting the Pacific Ocean at
Mattole Beach

This Jeep will go anywhere...!


We then continued along the road to Honeydew which eventually
ends up at Rockefeller Redwood State Park...




Aren't these trees amazing...?
It's one of my favorite drives.


Here's the view looking up through
the sunroof... 


All in all an amazing way to enjoy
a nice drive,
and spend some quality time
with my mom...






Saturday, October 9, 2010

Give Me Liberty... and I Will Go Everywhere!



I love my Jeep... it's been with me since Chicago and graduation from medical school.  It's traveled from there to Boston.  Back West to Minnesota.  Back East to New York.  And, it has now made it's way West to California.  In fact, we unloaded the Jeep to drive to my mom's house during one of our stops, and I found it very surreal to be driving my Jeep around my hometown.

Now it's up in Northern California, and we are still going on adventures.  I've had the last three days off, and yesterday we took the Thirty Mile Drive to a small town named Petrolia.

Now, most of the drive is along a small, almost single lane highway that takes you from sea level up through pine forests, across pastures, back down to sea level, past rivers, and into broadleaf forests.  But, being the adventurous sorts and loving that I have a Jeep we had to take the not well-traveled path which one of the local storekeepers in Petrolia told us would be worth our while exploring... this should have been our first sign that things might get rough...


However, we pushed forward through pine trees that touched the sides of the car until we came to this...


If you look every closely around the middle of the picture you can see a truck that made the journey before us.  You can sort of make out the road we were going to have to go down... and down we did...
Which allowed us to see this area...

And take pictures like this...


No wonder it's called the Lost Coast... But, with my Jeep, it was an easy find!


Cheers!  As we continue to explore our new place called home...!

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