Coastal Trip - Days 7 & 8 Ferndale to Point Arena to San Fran to Home - Oct 2 &3

On Friday, Oct 2nd, we said goodbye to Ferndale and for the first time started driving south, heading down the 1 to Point Arena where we would be staying the last night of our trip. The drive was gorgeous as we saw some great stretches of coastline. We stopped to see the famous Glass Beach in Fort Bragg where years of erosion had smoothed what used to be discarded glass trash into colorful little beach "rocks". From there we headed down thru Mendocino where we had a nice lunch and then into Point Arena where we found our little hideway hotel and saw a fantastic sunset over the ocean. Definitely a great place to spend our last night.

We woke up on Sat in Point Arena and headed over to the tour the lighthouse. Built in 1870, the views were great and it was cool to actually go up into a functioning historic lighthouse. We again started down the 1 for our last couple hours along the shoreline and there was a bike race going on which made the windy roads even a little more interesting. We cut back to the 101, thru Marin county, and then across the Golden Gate into San Fran to catch our flight back home. It was the end of an incredible trip with many great memories, but it is always nice to go back to San Diego, and see Bella who my Dad had been nice enough to dog-sit for the week we were gone. We look forward to another trip in the future to Northern California.