by Tara | Aug 5, 2025 | California 2025, Travel
Today we woke up and headed up to the Russian Gulch State Park, which was about an hour north near Mendicino. It was a really pretty park, but we immediately noticed that there was no signage inside — which was pretty odd because there were some pretty impressive...
by Tara | Aug 4, 2025 | California 2025, Travel
This morning our main goal was to get gas and to our kayak tour by 11am. The tour was in Mendicino — which sounds like a familiar town and therefore must have gas, right? Nope! There was one gas station that had $9.59-per-gallon pricing!!! We were literally on fumes...
by Tara | Aug 3, 2025 | California 2025, Travel
We started off today driving to the Albion River to see a huge wooden bridge. It’s like the largest wooden bridge in the United States. It was actually really cool (and huge!) to see and we used the campground below for a quick pit stop. We were starting to need gas,...
by Tara | Aug 2, 2025 | California 2025, Travel
Well….. that night didn’t go as planned AT ALL! After I finished journaling, we both got ready for bed. I was in the bedroom and Kaia had the sleeper sofa. All of a sudden she screamed and ran into my room saying that she saw some sort of animal in the room with her....
by Tara | Aug 1, 2025 | California 2025, Travel
Today was checkout day for us. We woke up early (again) and packed up all of our things before heading out. Our goal was to cross the Golden Gate Bridge in full sunlight and then enjoy the view from Battery Spencer Park before heading to our reserved time at Muir...
