Jen's Account of the Day

We got up early (though, really, we got up early every day, thanks to the 2 hour time difference) to get our car and get out of dodge. This went surprisingly smoothly, and we were on our way across the bridge and up the coast. On our way to Fort Bragg, we stopped a few places along the way, including a lighthouse. The coast was foggy, cold, and windy. I didn't mind it, but Matt didn't seem to like it so much.

Fort Bragg is not a big town, and we were starving by the time we got there, so we stopped for lunch more or less at the first place we found. It was some weird Italian breakfast thing, and it was okay. Our hotel wasn't a hotel so much as an old house outfitted into a Bed & Breakfast, without the breakfast. Also without private bathrooms. Four rooms shared one. There were two towels.

We still had plenty of daylight left, so we headed back out to see a state forest that Matt saw on the map, only to discover that it is literally just a forest and not a park with trails or anything. So we drove around a bit, eventually winding up on a cold and windy beach. After we went back to town Matt went off by himself to the legendary Glass Beach, which is completely roped off to keep people from stealing the glass pebbles which were really just washed-up trash to begin with. He was unimpressed.

Dinner at some hole-in-the-wall pizza place was great. And they had my cider, the one I had at the Tower of London and could never find again. It even made up for the breakfast-less B&B. I wanted to make sure that I got a clean towel, so I showered early.

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