Exploring the northern California coast
Ed and Gail see the sights around San Francisco
We stayed a few nights at a coastal California RV park. As we pulled in to book our spots, the park manager had just come back from checking his crab traps. Several traps were loaded with live crab. I jokingly said if he had too many, we could find a home for them.
To our surprise, there was a knock on the camper door around supper time and he was standing there with a large bowl full of freshly cleaned and cooked crab. Wow! What a surprise. We thanked him and dug into our fresh crab meal.
The next day I was walking around the motorhome and discovered the extension sewer hose that I left lying under the unit was now nicely flattened under one of my levelling jacks. I guess I should have put it away when I set up.
Soon we were off to Santa Rosa, California.
Getting around in some of these larger communities can be intimidating if you are driving a large unit and Santa Rosa was no exception. The instructions we were following to get to our RV park took us into the town fairgrounds. We soon found ourselves in a place we should not be. Again it was necessary to unhook our cars so we could get turned around. John discovered it is not a good idea to unhook your car if you are on a slight slope, and Gail found herself chasing her new car across the parking lot. Oh well, I guess that is what insurance is for and the damage was only minor. We soon managed to find the RV park and got settled in for the night.
In the morning the girls did some touring while I did some more repairs on the trailer and John caught up on his sleep. It turned out the creator of the Peanuts cartoons came from Santa Rosa and the girls enjoyed a museum dedicated to the works of Charles Schulz.
Our next stop was San Francisco and I was not looking forward to dealing with the traffic. I had a conversation with the RV park manager and she suggested we take the ferry across the bay. What a great idea! We were about three-quarters of an hour away from the terminal.
The next morning we took one of the cars to the terminal and had an exciting ride across the bay to downtown San Francisco. Over the next several days we did the bus tour, Fisherman's Wharf, the seals, the submarine, the Liberty ship, Alcatraz Island and much more. We had a great time.
Soon it was time to move on. But that is my next story.
