With our taste buds still applauding us for our cheesy lunch selection, we left for one of our favorite romantic couple places, the picturesque coastal art town of Mendocino. We stayed a night here on our honeymoon in 1986 and we enjoy getting back every decade or so. Always good to be back when we do make it, and now it is customary for Sue to select a piece of jewelry as part of the Mendocino experience. She really like this place ;-).
We stretched our legs with a slow walk up the barely surfaced streets of town with pauses to look through the shop windows at the art and trinkets on display in this artistic center hanging on at the edge of the world. We kept walking on through town and found ourselves sauntering down some dusty trails and through waist-high wildflowers along a point of land atop the sea cliffs. It is an eyeful to take in the scenic surroundings. Gentle waves rise out of green waters and lap against the land, old working of unknown origins have had stout pilings carved into faces, my guest is the handiwork was done about 40 years ago when hippies were a new thing in the land. We paused for a few moments to just watch the waters below, and then checked the time piece and decide we best be heading back to dress for dinner.
We will return to Little River Inn, where we stayed as a honeymooning couple in April of 1986. It is a nice to return to the memory and spot with a fine dinner at a small table for two, next to the garden window, as always.
In the morning we purchased some food to share, and then went hunting for a new piece of sparkly adornment. Sue tried on and considered many stones and mountings and I even got to give my opinion to the two sales women and my wife. She settled on a golden butterfly with wings fashioned out of watermelon tourmaline. Very nice.
This was a "fancy stay" stop. From here on out it would three nights of camping. We were going to touch on all ends of the spectrum in our travels.
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| Mendocino, a favorite couples romantic destination |
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| Window shopping Trinkets and art in Mendocino |
We stretched our legs with a slow walk up the barely surfaced streets of town with pauses to look through the shop windows at the art and trinkets on display in this artistic center hanging on at the edge of the world. We kept walking on through town and found ourselves sauntering down some dusty trails and through waist-high wildflowers along a point of land atop the sea cliffs. It is an eyeful to take in the scenic surroundings. Gentle waves rise out of green waters and lap against the land, old working of unknown origins have had stout pilings carved into faces, my guest is the handiwork was done about 40 years ago when hippies were a new thing in the land. We paused for a few moments to just watch the waters below, and then checked the time piece and decide we best be heading back to dress for dinner.
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| Carved piling from some old workings |
We will return to Little River Inn, where we stayed as a honeymooning couple in April of 1986. It is a nice to return to the memory and spot with a fine dinner at a small table for two, next to the garden window, as always.
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| Back for a 'Honeymoon Dinner' Little River Inn |
In the morning we purchased some food to share, and then went hunting for a new piece of sparkly adornment. Sue tried on and considered many stones and mountings and I even got to give my opinion to the two sales women and my wife. She settled on a golden butterfly with wings fashioned out of watermelon tourmaline. Very nice.
This was a "fancy stay" stop. From here on out it would three nights of camping. We were going to touch on all ends of the spectrum in our travels.
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