Redcrest California

I usually don't do this but I just returned from a family vacation through San Francisco and a few days up the Northern coast of California and visited the "Avenue of the Giants" Redwood forest.

http://avenueofthegiants.net/

It's a wonderful thing to see and the family loved it. While driving through the Redwood forest we passed through a town named Redcrest, population 85.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redcrest,_California

The wife decides she wants to send the grandparents a postcard since there is a post office across the street from a little shop. I figured I might as well send one to myself as well. The Lady at the post office was most charming and simply delighted to give it a nice crisp handstamp and was even scared she might screw it up and offered it to me to stamp my own.

She did it and did a great job. Then it made it up the road 40 miles to Eureka for their spray cancel

The big tourist thing in Redcest is ?


Ye, Bigfoot.

How far north up Hyw 101 did your vacation take you? I used to travel up to Oregon from Legget on 101, through Eureka and Cresent City. Beautifull highway, but watch out for elk around Orick!
Here's a couple of Humboldt county post cards. Carson's Woods near Fortuna, and Carson's mill on the waterfront Humboldt Bay/

We stayed a couple of kliks South of Fortuna, got a great room price at the Bear River Casino.

About 15 years ago, I was called over to Garberville ( from Little River ) to do a remodel project on the BenBow Inn, ( west of 101, south of Garberville, across Hwy from golf course ) and to keep me and my crew there, they gave us all roooms. Of course they were closed for the season at the time. But while we were there, after we were finished for the day the custodian offered to show us around. The bar and dinning room where marvelous, old world craftmanship at every level. This work was done just before WWII. One of the German workmen carved a swastica into one of the columns supporting the upper floors. It's still there.