Monday, October 31, 2016

We moved south 139.5 miles (80,150.3 total) to Richardson Grove RV Park.  It was adjacent to Richardson Grove State Park, California's southernmost stand of virgin Redwoods.  The picture below is of highway 101 passing through the state park.  It was less than a mile from our home for the next two weeks.

Timing was on our side since the campground has more than 2,000 campers during summer month concerts in the area.  In late October the campground was nearly empty - some nights it was just us and our next door neighbors (our daughter Kate and her husband Mike).

The closest "large" town (population just under 1,000) was Garberville about 8 miles away.  Their claim to fame was that they are the "Pot Capital of the World".  At least they had a grocery store.

Our camp hosts introduced us to a new term "trimmigrants".  Trimmigrants flock to the area from all over the world to harvest the marijuana grown in the hills around Garberville.  Our timing put us right in the middle of their busy season so trips to the grocery store included a good amount of people watching.

Some of the best of the northern California area was close by including the beautiful Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. The area was remote enough that we had no cell phone coverage, no television reception and the park had no cable.  Of course, that meant no internet except what we could get through the park's wi-fi.  It had such a limited range we had to sit on the recreation hall porch to get anything.  In retrospect, it was really a good time to be disconnected so we could ignore the political rancor consuming the country.