redmed<\/a>s parents, brother, and sister in law. We ate at Morning Glory, where I ordered the french toast stuffed with nutella and cheesecake. With maple butter. And cherry syrup. It was a little over the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![](\"http:\/\/cdwan.org\/pics\/temp\/P7050072.jpg\")
Then we swapped out the rental cars for the one we\u2019ll be driving to San Francisco, and hit the road. Zoom. We drove through the Rogue Valley, and then eventually hit coastal 101 and turned south, amidst the redwoods. In short order, we were in Crescent City. Picked up a map of the Redwoods National Parks, and decided to head out on the pier at the edge of town. We were walking out on said pier when I noticed EYES looking at me from the water. Eyes in a chubby little face. SEAL!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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With that to kick us off, we drove south, stopping about every 200 feet to photograph some amazing scenery. Got to the mouth of the Klamath river and started to walk down to the overlook when SNAKE!!!! Fortunately, it was a cute little (4\u2032) garden snake, but after that, every rustle in the grass sounded like a snake to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the overlook, we saw Osprey, Pelicans, Gulls, perhaps Murres, and a whole bunch of unidentified birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Continuing south, we rounded a corner and saw TEN ELK!!!! They were peacefully grazing on the hillside over the road. We hung out with them for a while and then continued on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Making our way into the driveway for the cabin where we\u2019re staying (just north of Trinidad, on the bluffs, overlooking the ocean), we saw QUAIL, and QUAIL BABIES!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Went into town, had a nice dinner, chatted up the waitress, she asked about my \u201cHelping Hands for Haiti,\u201d shirt, I dropped that I had gone down there after the earthquake, and she gave us pie with ice cream \u201cfor what you did.\u201d I just about cried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Finally, sitting on the park bench between our cabin and the ocean, watching the sun set, we\u2019re just being quiet. I see a kitty come around the tree beyond the house. Wait \u2013 not a kitty. RACCOON!!!! He was being all chill, just goin\u2019 to work, and then he saw us \u2013 just about lept out of his skin and skitter-skitter-skittered back around the cabin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that was my day. I\u2019m gonna stay up late and watch for bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 EDIT \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No bear last night. Two BUNNIES on the porch though, and HUMMINGBIRDS EVERYWHERE!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello from vacation. There\u2019s too much to fit in \u2013 so I\u2019m just going to hit the high points and backfill later. Woke up this morning in Ashland, OR. It\u2019s a funky \u2013 funky little hippie commune of a town. I woke up there because…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Hello from vacation. There\u2019s too much to fit in \u2013 so I\u2019m just going to hit the high points and backfill later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n