Day One: End of the day.
Born and raised in California, I have been just about everywhere, I cannot believe I have never been by Clear Lake. The road in was fun, I thought I'd have a chance to test out the newly installed sway bar and disc brakes, lots of twist and turns but narrow, I wanted to enjoy the view so I moved over to let cars go by.
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Just off the 101 heading to Clear Lake, no traffic so I just stopped to take this picture.
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Just past the summit, first look at the lake.
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Wrong time of day but a cool shot none the less.
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A couple more just because.
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At a rest stop north of Willits.
If it wasn't so late I would have done Avenue of the Giants (again). Initially I was going to stay in Garberville but there is only one (decent) place to stay and no good options on food. Had I stayed there I could have done the Redwoods tomorrow, good chance I'll take the car on a trip like this again.
It got dark pretty quick and I pushed through to Fortuna, I left my notes in the car so no miles or MPG
Overall the car did great, recent rebuild on the engine with enough shakedown miles (I hope).
Limited time with a fair amount of miles to cover so not a lot of room for different visits, I didn't even know what my route was going to be till Thursday.
Tomorrow is open, no set stops but I do have a destination.
Alan
