We flew into San Francisco. We had a 6 AM flight (ugh) and got in at 7:45 west coast time but didn't have our meeting to be interviewed by Customs and Immigration for our Global Entry status until 10 AM. So we went to the United Club and killed some time doing emails and then had breakfast. SFO United terminal has one of the best food courts I've seen in an airport. There is a great Chinese place and I had a bowl of Duck Noodle Soup.
More cheap good eats were to follow. We got our rental car and drove north to Petaluma where we were going to buy food and booze for the weekend. The market had a guy grilling meat outside and we had a half a rack of ribs for lunch.
This only cost $7! And they were good.
Then we drove up to Gualala that is just over the Sonoma/Mendacino County line on Route 1. SIL 1A the Armenian Deal Hound out did himself with a fantastic place, great beds, nice kitchen, hot tub, lowest cost we found for the weekend, and with views to die for. We spent a lot of time just taking the views in.
One of the nicest aspects of the house was that with it being on the heights we got to see all kinds of birds flying at our level, just below or above us. Once flight of pelicans went right past the window and another couple of time there were vultures circling right outside.
1.1 and Wife spent lots of time together
The only negative on 1A was his weather reporting. We went out to Point Arena to see the light house and go to the beach because 1A said it was going to be in the 80's. Turned out it was no even over 60!
1A - "OK everyone look at Grandpa de-I and don't look cold cause the $@*& is going to post this picture on his blog"
More scenes from Point Arena
It was just a day and half with the #1 clan and then it was drive down to Salinas to see Lady Di and Steve. We had drop our rental car off at the airport and get a different one to go to Salinas. If you go and drop off at the same airport it is much less than dropping off at a different place. We saved $125 this way.
Some pictures of the Route 1 coastal highway.
4 comments:
holy crap, those views ARE to die for! How relaxing. Lovely to see photos of the fam there as well.
Sounds like a nice place for the weekend! Congrats!
Oh and that duck soup looked amazing! Wow, that's a lot of duck. I would never have ordered it unless I had seen someone else get it first.
looks amazing!!!!
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