Our sluggish race to the coast paid off in cool green lush and banana slugs experienced along the Redwood trails with my old friend Angela.

 There's nothing really more magical and beautiful than what nature does when she is well watered and left free.

 Angela's daughter Lin is 13 and still content to be friends with ducks like Marco who seems to delight in preening her and being carried around by her.

 It was great to be in Arcata with Angela, Raymond, Jet and Lin but to get to Corvallis we had many foggy and beautiful beaches to parallel. More yet to come.
We ran out of bio-diesel too so we are holding out major hope we can find some here. Right now Michael is working on the solar panels and soon we'll have a little more oomph for processing our veggie oil.