Day 55 – May 4 – Old Town Eureka, CA

It was raining this morning and we just took it easy until near noon.  We had to do some grocery shopping – it seems like we do that a lot, but when you have limited space to store things you only get what you need, when you need it.

      

Redwood tree to the front of the camper

Another view of the tree

Our campers with redwood trees in back - Redwood Acres RV Park

First we located the local Costco store, they have the cheapest price on gas in this area – it is really hard to get use to paying $4.20 or more for gas.  We picked up a couple of items in the Costco since we were in the lot.  I forgot my rain jacket, so we went by a Sports Authority store first so I could get a rain jacket – Rick ended up getting one also.  Then to the grocery store for supplies – one of the things we found in the southern part of the state is stores do not provide bags for groceries.  When we were in Morro Bay the tourist shops did not have bags – they said it was a bag free area.  At any rate, Dorrie asked a woman on the parking lot if this store had bags or if we need to bring our own (we learned to keep bags in the back of the Jeep).  The woman said they have bags so we left our bags in the car and did our shopping.

We returned to the campers and put things away.  After a little while we decided to try to find old town Eureka.  The photos we had seen showed an area of colorful Victorian type building.  We managed to find the old town section and did a little sightseeing.

Called the Pink Lady

Was a private home, now a club

Part of Old Town Eureka

 

Tomorrow we move on – not sure where we will spend the night.