It's Raining It's Pouring

Well, it's never gotten above 44 degrees and it literally hasn't stopped raining yet!  Hence, there are no photos to share.  We came down Coast Route 1 and even in the pouring rain it's absolutely spectacular... the road itself has taken a real pounding this winter season and  makes for a challenging drive.  We stayed in Santa Rosa with Livonne and Andy for a night and then continued to Cambria Pines Lodge.  VERY cool place.  

This trip may serve to make us a little happier to live right where we do in Oregon!  This appears to be an entire coastline of people living in multimillion dollar homes and then the people who work for them... who are living in very, very basic homes that look like you're across the border in Mexico, but their homes are priced in the mid $500.000.  They just live very densely packed.

We're heading across the state tomorrow morning to drive Hwy 49 thru the Gold Country.  Thanks for bothering with this... wish it had been a better idea.... just too much rain to make it very interesting.  Hope you're all warm and we'll talk soon!  

Looking for a new home in the sun!

Sunday, Jan 20th we'll hit the road in search of the sun (which has been in short supply in Portland of late).   We're heading south and will cut over to Hwy 1 and follow it down the coast of Calif looking for that undiscovered little hamlet that calls to us. We'll post photos along the way and hope that if you're not experiencing sunshine where you are, that you can enjoy it vicariously with us.  

We should probably head straight to the wild fire areas and look for something that's just singed around the edges, smells a little smokey and priced to sell.