No particular rush today, so we get up and cycle into town for breakfast, which we have here. Not in the guns and ammo place, but in the Hot Brew. Very nice too, especially the blueberry pancakes. Then we split up: Diane buys food in Safeway, and I cycle up the road to buy a spare tube in a sports shop. I was trying to pump her front tyre up this morning, and the end of the valve broke off. Ok for the moment, but needs to be swapped at some point.
Then we’re off up the 101 again, which is a freeway here, passing humungous wood processing places until we reach our turn-off for Avenue of the Giants This is the original US 101, now a scenic route through the big redwoods.
There aren’t many towns around here, so you tend to get the very local and the long way away on the same sign. We’re going through all of these anyway. We should be in San Fran in about ten days.
All the local attractions are log-related, including this cross-section through a giant redwood.
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They are beautiful, though, so we meander slowly along the road, which is mercifully flat, following the Eel River.
We reach our campground and set up. It’s really quite hot, and the sunlight filters down through the trees.
We’re not planning to go very far tomorrow, so we can linger in the trees a while longer.
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