Tuesday 5/11 Flew from BWI to OAK
dinner at home - steak and grilled asparagus
Wednesday 5/12 Headed north on 101 to Humboldt County and the Avenue of the Giants
On to Eureka and Arcata, night at Hampton Inn
Knit, Eureka - Dede bought wool yarn for matching She & ME slippers!
lunch at Avenue Cafe in Miranda at the very start of the Avenue of the Giants
dinner at La Fiesta Grill in Arcata (yum! taco salad for me, enchilada for Dede)
Thursday 5/13 Arcata to Redding across 299 - wow - then 5 to Corning (OLIVES!) 99 to Chico, home via 5/505/80/37
Sew Simple, Redding - nice shop with small rooms for babies, Christmas, kitchen
The Sewing Room - Park Marina Drive, Redding (no photo, large shop with crafters items along perimeter)
The Quilt Basket, Corning (great old building outside, not much fabric but notions and machines inside)
Honey Run Quilters, Chico - huge store with lots of machines, quilt shop in back corner, but fabric and ideas everywhere. Clothing patterns and ideas, too.
lunch at From the Hearth (similar to Panera) in Redding,
dinner at home, grilled sausages and Quinoa salad
Friday 5/14 Accidental Quilt Shop Hop
Cloth Carousel, Vacaville (found free cowlette/dog coat pattern)
Fabric Garden, Sacramento (very nice shop, Dede bought Mondo bag pattern)
Swifty Stitches, Carmichael (bought Laura's 4th July fabric, women sewing in the back)
Runs with Scissors, Citrus Heights (Dede taught customer how to sew the "kites" strip quilt she just finished.
lunch at West Coast Sour Dough (outside) in Sacramento
dinner at home, grilled sausages and salad
Saturday, 5/15 Novato to oompa loompa state park
through Greenbrae, Ross, San Anselmo, Fairfax, Woodacre, West Marin (Olema, Pt. Reyes Station, Inverness Park, Inverness, Marshall)
Samuel P. Taylor State Park - Redwood groves and grassy hills, nice campground
Tomales State Park - has beach and picnicking down a half mile road)
lunch at Boca Pizzeria, Novato - chicken flatbread wrap with hummus, tomatoes, yummy dressing)
dinner at home - Grilled salmon, grilled asparagus, sliced brown tomatoes
Sunday, 5/16
Over the Golden Gate Bridge - a little bit of good old SF fog - to San Bruno Mountain - up to the foggy summit where there were no other cars, because Steve had the secret entry code. Windy. Super windy. If there were no fog, we would have looked down onto several huge cemeteries on one side and the city of San Francisco on the other.
Daly City - the song "Little Boxes, on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky" was written about Daly City
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Through Pacifica to Moss Beach.
Dessert at Tuttimelon in Novato, Pineapple Whip Sorbet. Blissful day!
Monday, 5/17/2021
Drove into San Francisco for the day, eating lunch at The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, just beside the Bay Bridge in South Beach.
I've posted the photos on a separate blog post here.
Took some photos of Dede's flowers and lemons as well as California poppies and other cool flowers on the side of the roadway.
Tuesday, 5/18/2021
Homeward bound. Left Oakland at 9:20 am, arriving in Baltimore at 8:10 pm. By the time I got my bag and reached the car it was almost 10 pm. I'm so glad that I had reserved a night at the BWI Garden Hilton, which was around 3 miles from the parking garage!
What a wonderful week!
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