Ferndale Fairgrounds

We had a relaxing morning, why hurry. Lou baked an omelet. Since the oven was hot, I started baking a bunch of Italian sausage to freeze. They are easy to cook in the oven, no grease spatter like frying and easy to cleanup up after if you line the pan with tin foil. Good plan, bad result. The oven quit. The thermocouple failed again and it won't let the burner come on. So I did some frying.

Lou and Dawn dropped by the thrift store next door. Before we departed I looked around a nice outdoor shop, tried out a couple of kayaks for size and comfort then went by Autozone to pickup some black silicon caulk for one of the RV windows. The right front has a piece missing.


We stopped off for a break in Hopland. We tried to stop at the Solar Living Center but they aren't RV friendly so we parked in town and walked back. Not too far. It's a nice place to visit and has interesting products for alternate energy and alternate methods of living. Nice ponds and cool grounds are part of the Solar Living Center. They practice what the sell here. The whole place appears to be solar powered.

One of the ponds bull frogs peeks out on the left. There are also a lot of curious fish in the pond.


Now this is something you don't see every day. Also quite embarrassing to be passed by a wiener car.

We made our way North to Ferndale to the Humboldt Fairgrounds. We got all setup and relaxed a while before heading over to The Somoa Cookhouse, the last surviving lumbercamp cookhouse. Always good food. We have to make a special effort to control ourselves when we're in town. We have gotten carried away before and visited the cookhouse too often.

Tomorrow, we'll visit the Loleta Cheese Factory and Ferndale. Later, Eureka and Arcata.

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