Fortuna, CA to Cottage Grove, OR, 317 miles. Traveling up the coast on 101, remember the Golden Bear Bridge?
Lots more big redwoods,,,,
And back to the coast,,,,
A brush with disaster, climbing up away from the coast, Will Lancasters A just quit on a blind curve with lots of traffic stacked up behind!!!! Talk about the worst possible place.
Some quick thinking, and some luck, Will managed to get off the road to the left without getting clobbered by using the starter to move the car. Whew! Luckily downhill traffic was not going too fast to stop. Turned out the headlights had shorted out and blew the fuse, no more headlights and on we went.
Cool tunnel in the Smith River Canyon,,, by the way, we have a Smith on our tour, no relation, I guess.
Welcome to Oregon!!!
Made this little out of the way station's day,,,, You know every station still has an attendant here in Oregon, lots of young girls doing that task.
I might mention that highway 101 was closed south of Coos Bay today, requiring an 80 mile plus detour making a 370 mile day for our pack which went to Florence, OR. Pat and I splintered off at 317 miles (over my personal limit) and stayed in Cottage Grove. And we had dinner with Mike and Nadine Camicia who live about 10 minutes from Cottage Grove.
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