Road Trips : Portland/Seattle : 2002 : Page Two
Saturday 30 March 2002 (Continued)
We arrived in Eureka about 7:00 and checked into our reserved room at the Motel 6. Well, not exactly, as they'd lost my reservation. But we got a room anyway, and used it to stretch our muscles a bit. We felt much better afterward.
Eureka is a pleasant enough place, and the cool weather was a significant improvement over the heat in Ukiah. But it's not quite as interesting as I'd somehow thought it might be. We toured the city by night, ate at a Mexican restuarant which was passable, if not authentic, and came home to bed, where I had a little trouble sleeping due to a bit of stiffness in the leg. We decided to make more stops to walk around on Sunday's drive.
Sunday 31 March 2002
We had breakfast in the restaurant by the Motel 6 and were pretty much on our way without significant delay. We explored Eureka a bit, and we motored through Arcata and most of the rest of Northern California pretty quickly. Neither of us was particularly in the mood for hippie oceanographers on this Easter Sunday.
It was all very scenic. And I'm not saying that in a sarcastic way, even though I'm not really a nature freak. It was a good day for a drive.
And for a stop at the Trees of Mystery, where we visited the gift shop (if not the actual trees) and wondered at Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, noting that the latter evidently has the largest set of testicles on the west coast.