Eureka and Trinidad 8-30-08

This morning was cool and gray with high fog. I did my workout, we had our morning toast and then we were off on errands.

The internet is quite often a great help living on the road. Larry had something he needed to have weighed for postage and on the internet he found where the closest Post Office was and he found one that was open for three hours today, when most are closed on Saturdays. It was in Bay Side just outside of Arcata and we got to see an area we have never seen before.

Then it was on to Eureka where there was a branch of our bank also open on a Saturday; another chore done and now we have plenty of quarters for doing laundry.

Now, seeing as we were already in Eureka we might as well walk around the historic district where all the cute shops and coffee houses were and we had a lovely time. We spent quite a lot of time perusing one section of one store for Christmas gifts and walked around and enjoyed the new paint jobs on many of the Victorians and the changes that have been made since we were last here. We found a couple of interesting book stores and in one new age bookstore had a lengthy conversation with a guest Astrologist who was present to give readings.

We found a bakery/coffee house that was new to us and they actually served my Latté in a real glass instead of a paper to go cup. It just tastes better in glass and almost everywhere now serves in paper even if you stay in. The building was old and while we relaxed with our drinks and our shared piece of Apple Pandowdy we studied on the one hundred year old brick wall which was kind of wavy and all the bricks were hand made. Some of the interiors are as interesting as the outsides.

After we were done with our fun shopping we went to Costco. I call this one in Eureka the Stealth Costco. You can’t see it from the highway at all and unless you look it up online or ask someone you wouldn’t know it was there. It is a smaller store but had what we wanted and DARN, we were there when we were hungry so we HAD to have a Costco hotdog for dinner.

From there we drove north to Trinidad, I needed to look in the two little gift shops there for something my Sister wanted, but they didn’t have it. We stopped to overlook the cove that is looking south towards Arcata and I had to take some pictures and this wild rose bush was pretty and framed the cove.

The fog had burned off and weirdly was hanging over the inland hills, but the coastline was clear and it was windy, so we decided to skip walking on the beach and just sat at this overlook for awhile and enjoyed watching the ocean looking north to Trinidad. We did some more cruising around and then it was back home. It was a very enjoyable day.