Well, we’re not really in Eureka right now, but we’re close: Riverwalk RV Resort in Fortuna, California.
This is a very nice RV park, one that we’ve visited a number of times. It is very clean, has beautiful trees (huge redwood trees between sites), has the nicest office/store of any RV park that we’ve visited, and has a swimming pool, too.
Fortuna is located about a dozen miles south of Eureka on Hwy 101. There’s not much in Fortuna except all of the basic stores. However, it is located maybe 5 miles from Ferndale.
Ferndale is a little tourist magnet that has quite a few Victorian buildings, many of which are nicely preserved in bright colors. The downtown features a bunch of them and has a couple of shops that Charlie likes to visit. We were there yesterday, and she bought several Brighton jewelry items. It made her week.
The Humboldt County Fair is in session this week, and we dropped by after shopping to mosey through the place. It was Seniors’ Day, so admission was free to us old coots.
That was totally appropriate, because it was a very puny County fair. Not much to see, really, so we focused on finding some totally unhealthy “fair food” to munch on.
Charlie had a $10 hamburger and I had some curly fries that were topped by a miniscule amount of chicken, bleu cheese, and Buffalo sauce. Three guys couldn’t have eaten all of the fries, and the crappy meal cost me $14! I’ll bet that the ingredients didn’t cost $1.50.
We concluded our short visit by purchasing: (1) a hat for Charlie; and, (2) a couple of tee shirts.
All in all, we donated about $100 to the local economy.
(Walking through the fairgrounds involved some deja vu on my part. I managed the Riverside County Fair/National Date Festival from 1988 through 1994. It was a very large fair…10th largest County fair in the U.S. (we did over 220,000 in attendance in ten days). We also had Off-Track Wagering, a locally-televised Presidents’ Day Parade, and an Arabian Nights Pageant, to boot. Our rear parking lot was larger than the Ferndale fairgrounds. We had good times there, both Charlie and I.)
I spent some time this week rejiggering the rest of our trip. We had been scheduled to go from here to Bodega Bay, then to Marin, then to Monterey, then down to Oceanside. However, the more I thought about spending one whole week in Marin (it’s a small, tight park), the more I didn’t like it. What we decided to do was reduce our stay there to three days, add one day to our stop near Monterey (Marina Dunes), and add a 2-day stop at Half Moon Bay.
(Although I lived in Santa Cruz when I was a teen, I never visited Half Moon Bay, which is just up the coast a bit. I’m looking forward to it. It is near the location of the famous “Mavericks” surf spot.)
BTW, I think we’re going to scrap the plan (?) to euthanize Jay Jay. He has kicked his diarrhea problem, has resumed excreting hard turds, and his bubbly personality has returned. I think our threats…to plant the dude…worked. HaHa.