California – Twists and Turns
A Road to the Boonies In my last blog, we were about ready to leave Apple Town for our northern California coast B&B. It was a Sunday, our third day in the sunshine state and we headed north to eventually swing a left toward the coast and Elk, CA. Chris had this notion that it was a 3.25-hour drive from our San Fran area hotel up to our B&B. It was all of that just to the road of twists and turns. California has mountains that run parallel to its length; with much of the entire length of the state having a range that butts right up to the coast. So go west my friend go west to the Pacific, yes, but before you hit the ocean in many CA locations you must first cross or cut through that last western mountain range. Yes, we had a scenic trouble-free freeway drive north on the 101 until we reached a town called Ukiah where we headed west toward the Pacific on the 253. We were headed into the coastal mountains toward a town called Boonville. That town should have been called “The Bo