Hwy 1 Coastline

Glass Beach@ Fort Bragg CA

Glass Beach

Hwy 1 Coastline

Jack checking out the fluffy things. Of course I had him cut some to take home!

We spent two nights in Willit CA where we had no wifi,cable TV or Satelite...Primitive camping at it's best. We did make a drive west on Hwy 20 to Fort Bragg,which sits on Hwy 1 and some spectacular coastline scenery. We specifically wanted to visit the Glass Beach.

Glass Beach is a unique beach, not because nature made it that way, but because time and the pounding surf have corrected one of man's mistakes.
Beginning in 1949, the area around Glass Beach became a public dump.  Back then people dumped all kinds of refuse straight into the ocean, including old cars, and their household garbage, which of course included lots of glass. The decades of wave action and pounding surf has smoothed the glass into bits of beautiful small pieces.  Although you are not suppose to take any of the glass there were dozens of people there along with us prospecting and gathering glass.

South of Glass Beach on Hwy 1 we stopped in the small town of Elk because we like towns named Elk, and there was an scenic overlook to the beach below. Elk is also where Jack London wrote "The Call of the Wild" in 1902!

We decided to take a different route back to Willit...did I mention I was driving? Always like to give Jack a break so he can look at scenery and not the road. I look at scenery whether I'm driving or not and therefore sometimes swerve a bit away from the shoulder..... Anyway we took the twisty turning narrow road..Philo-Greenwood Rd, back to Hwy 128 and the Anderson Valley Wine Country. We stopped at Scharffenberger Winery for a quick taste of their wine and then back on the road. Hwy 128 eventually runs into 101 again and civilization. We stopped in Ukiah for lunch at the Ukiah Brewing Co and saw this weird party bus. There were 4 or five guys riding in the back and there were surfboards on the top.

Left Willit this morning and headed south on 101 then detoured over Hwy 29 which was once again a twisty turning road....this time we were towing the 5th wheel but Jack did a great job as always and we made it to the Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga. Full hookups,satelite TV,wifi,sunny and 90 degrees. Looking forward to some wine tasting over the next couple days and maybe I can convince Jack to take a therapeutic mud bath,which is what Calistoga is famous for...