Alissa: We stopped for lunch in Eureka where there were beautiful Victorian homes and an adorable historic downtown.
We continued to Ferndale to the Gingerbread Mansion Inn. The main street here resembled that of Disneyland with a General Store and Meat Company, where the host of “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” used to work! We arrived to homemade chocolate chip cookies and woke up to freshly made donuts, eggs, waffles and more cookies! We were the only ones staying in the entire inn.
Glen: In fact, Ferndale did seem like Disney — but oddly void of all the customers. We were also the only ones at dinner, too, so that when we stood up after we ate, the live pianist stopped playing. But it was a cute town. Below is a great graph of elevation vs. distance that Alissa’s multipurpose wrist gizmo creates:
Unfortunately, being the first day out, I was a bit overzealous on that hill that sticks out like a sore thumb, or I should say, like a sore knee…