Blogs from Arcata, California, United States, North America - page 2

This weekend I traveled to the coast and saw the pacific ocean, the redwood trees, and the most hippie town I think that exists in the United States. It was nice to get out of Chester and see some of the major points of California. The pacific was awesome and freezing, but we went swimming anyway. I found 3 giant green anemones and some baby shrimp. Oh and my camera died right before this so I have like 12 pictures from the whole trip, half of which are of state route 299 because it was ridiculously smoky. The next day we hit up the farmer's market which is like the focal point of hippie-dom for the week. We were sitting around listening to polka music in the plaza where we met this girl from Baltimore who ... read more

Steve: Late on the sunday evening we drove up to Arcata to stay with Sam for a few days. It was a long drive in the dark through windy roads but not too bad. The next day we were pretty tired so didn't do much other than try to do the blog which was a pain and took a lot longer than we expected so i hope people are enjoying it ! It was cool staying at Sam's place as he is iin student halls and they are a lot nicer than english ones. It was also nice because we have been able to meet a few different people who are all pretty cool. In fact it was after only a few minutes that Spencer (sams neighbour) popped in to offer us a cup of tea ... read more

Kate here again... Not enough time to get the pictures up :( Sorry y'all. Hopefully we'll have some downtime in Chico on Friday/Saturday to get them up, and I promise to type up some more text at my Mom's tonight and tomorrow night. Shay says hello to everyone, and so does my Mom. -Kate... read more

February 17-26, 2006 Seaside, Ore. - Arcata, Calif. Mile 1,029 Greetings from sunny California! It sounds trite, but it really was warmer and we felt a mite more laid-back when we crossed the state line a few days ago. Writing from Arcata, Calif., I am happy to report that both of us are healthy again, that Matilda kept us warm on a string of below-freezing nights on the Oregon coast, and that shirtsleeves never felt so good. When we were starting this trip in Port Townsend more than a month (and more than 1,000 miles) ago, we would look up the weather reports for regions of California and daydream about 80 degrees in L.A. It’s been in the high 60’s in northern California, so we’re getting there! One interesting development: Jeff has been gluten-free since leaving ... read more