We drive back from the coast, stopping for breakfast, and to take a short hike among the Redwoods.
We drop Mountain Goat back off at her hotel because she has resupply boxes to make up for the rest of the hike, and she's worried about time. The four of us drive back to the rental car office, and try to decide if we should all go back to Callahan's and camp on the lawn, or rent a hotel in Ashland for the night.
After much calling around to different hotels, we decide it will be more entertaining to split a room and hang out downtown, perhaps catching a play, as we're right in the middle of the Ashland Shakespeare festival. Ashland is really great town of about 20,000. It has some great restaurants, and hip bars, and the people are friendly and welcoming. We end up grabbing happy hour and meeting a couple who tell us we need to check out a band (St. Cinder) at the Lounge tonight. It ends up being one of the best shows I've been to in ages (even pre trail), and the music is great. We dance the night away, and it is amazing. We walk back to the hotel around 10:30, trying to get a decent amount of sleep since we're all planning on getting back on the trail tomorrow.
The next morning we head to Morning Glory, for the best breakfast of our lives. Seriously. Check out the menu.
Back at Callahan's, and we repack all of our new food, trying to get ready for the next 100 mile section, still feeling the seducing pull of Ashland. I'll be back, I tell myself.
What a great couple of days!!!!
ReplyDeleteI saw on the GPS at you were at the coast and couldn't wait to read the story, wow so beautiful there and it sounds like so much fun.
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This sounds like so much fun! Those redwood trees are amazing. I'm putting a card in the mail for you today- it should be waiting for you at the Cascade Locks RV park stop.
ReplyDeleteAshland is great. It's nice reading your thoughts of some places that we have visited and enjoyed. Steve's dad was in the va hospital in Ashland before he passed away.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually writing this while staying in Burney for the weekend. We have seen quite a few trail hikers and stopped for one who was hitchhiking, but then we saw there were 2. We couldn't take them because our backseat in the jeep was too full for 2. He was ok with us moving on, since they had just gotten there.
It made me thankful to now have better insight into these hikers, and the ones hiking the pct are easy to spot with their poles.....all thanks to you. :-)
Love you, Bree! This is the best read of my summer. I'm cheering you on. xo Mary Sue
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