A Taste of the Pacific Northwest

Tim: It is Friday and we are halfway through our stay in Eureka, California. Today has been a very rainy, cool day…the kind of day that makes you want to sleep all day long. We did not get any real significant rainfall during our entire trip until we got out of the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains and came into Sacramento last Sunday. Since then, it has been very wet. Fortunately for us, the KOA Kamping Kabin we are staying in has a great heater in it. We are staying toasty warm at nights.

Today was Laundry Day for us. We have not done any laundry since Corpus Christi, so it has been a while. We saw an incredible movie tonight, “The World’s Fastest Indian” with Anthony Hopkins. It was a really inspiring movie about a guy from New Zealand who had a great passion about racing motorcycles. This guy achieved his dream of racing at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and broke world records in the process. As he was trying to achieve his dream, people kept telling him he was too old, that his motorcycle was not up to snuff, and so on. However, he bucked the odds and held firm to his passion and his dream. Just what we needed to see right now.

On our first night here we saw “Inside Man” with Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster. It was very good…we highly recommend it, as well!

Eureka has a ton of movie theatres and even more coffee shops. There are so many different kinds of restaurants here, too. We are thinking about going to the Jamaican restaurant tomorrow. We had an authentic Mexican meal the other day. It was really good and very quiet…we were the only customers in the place.

Just as we mentioned in the last post, there are a ton of transients here. They love to wear camouflage fatigues for some reason. Even though it rains a ton here, no one uses umbrellas here, just rain parkas with hoods on them. I guess if it rains this much, you might as well have a parka instead.

Candy has had some success the last day or so getting started on her website. She decided she needed to use Flash on the website, a multi-media software. She had not used it for over two years. It took her an evening to learn how to work with it again. She definitely has technological chops!

As the sun went down tonight, we saw the most amazing rainbow we have ever seen before…we almost thought we could find the elusive “pot of gold” at the end of the rainbow. The pictures can be found below.

We still have not made any progress on where we will head next. We want to find a place for about two weeks to a month if possible so we can keep working on the things we need to get right. Stay tuned daily for the latest on your favorite blog on the web, “Risking It All.”