The Long and Winding Road

I'm forgoing movie titles on this one because the song fits so appropriately. Let me preface this blog by saying I couldn't post yesterday because the KOA in Crescent City is a big fat liar. They have the worst internet in the world. I am bitter. And because I can't connect the two days in my head, I am posting twice. Sorry guys. Feel free to skip if you want to. I am doing it for my own sanity.

Montana and I had a fabulous time at Monica and Mike's house in Yuba City. Olivia, Daryll, and Olivia's boyfriend, Devon, all took Montana to the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie and he really enjoyed his nap. He said the beginning was good. And the end was pretty good too.

Monica made us cinnamon streusel muffins with cream cheese frosting for breakfast. Yum. Serious yum.

I have a small announcement. I bought a map. I know. Pretty damn exciting.

So I looked at said map and thought if I went this other way it would be a bit faster and Monica said I could do a little sightseeing also. I'm all for that! So off we went. Two fools. We got to Redding just fine. We ate at this darling little restaurant called the Black Bear Diner where they had little tiny pies you could buy and take with you. I didn't, but I sure wanted to. They were so very pretty. Sitting outside across the street was this homeless man with a cardboard sign asking for money. Not really a shock, especially in this area. It was 104*. He sat there for the entire 45 minutes we were there and in that time one person gave him something and it was a sandwich. He ate it immediately. I found it sad. After lunch we pulled around and gave him some money and a bottle of cold water. He was very gracious. My point is only to say~thanks Baby, for taking such good care of us. For working so hard every day and providing for us so well that we can actually do this carefree thing. We miss you so much. We don't ever take what you do for us for granted.

I can't get him to stop singing the Lollipop Guild.

We went to the Sundial Bridge after this. Totally awesome. Huge and beautiful and really cool. Here's the thing. The bridge is covered in spiders on it's edges. These really huge spiders. It was, frankly, pretty creepy. We went into the museum/gift shop and the front window is incredibly tall and there were like 20 huge spiders on the window there. The man at the front desk said by October the front window will be covered with thousands of the spiders and they make an exhibit of it. Yuck.

We are officially on our way to Crescent City. The whole trip was supposed to be about 6 hours. Oh, it was so not that easy. We stopped at a great little western town with a museum. Took a ton of pictures and bothered the museum guy 5 minutes before closing. Still pretty cool. I'm sure he hates us.

Hopped back onto the highway. It turns out the highway is in fact 280 miles of the most beautiful switchbacks anyone could possibly want to travel 30-40 mph on! It is called Trinity highway which I thought was appropriate because it was just a slice of heaven to look at. Between the road being constantly turning and the construction stopping us for 20 minutes at a shot, the 3 hour trip turned into nearly 6. By the time we came out of it, it was nearly dark. What a day. Sometime about, oh say, 6pm, Montana said, "those friggin' spiders were HUGE". Random dude. Periodically I would notice altitude signs along the highway. No matter how high, or how low we seemed to be, they said the same thing. "2000 ft.". As a resident of Denver, Colorado, land of 5280 ft., I have one thing to say. Amateurs.

Stopped by the ocean as the sun was setting so we could get our feet wet and Montana could see it. It was cold. :)

Had seriously the best pizza ever. Some place on the side of the road. Wish I had it now.

Hopped back in the car to drive to Crescent City KOA. Now, it's dark. The trees are big. The roads are winding. We take a turn and BAM! there is a sign in front of us that says, "SLOW DOWN!". Yeah, that wasn't scary at all. It was just a warning sign that the corner needs caution. I almost wet my pants. Montana died laughing.

It was 10:30pm by the time we got to the cabin. Jacked the space heater to high and headed straight to bed. So the day was totally awesome and totally long.

When we got up in the morning I headed out for a shower. The cabin was located on Lost Road. Who told them about me??