On our way up the coast of California, before we entered Oregon we’re thought we’d stay a day or two in Eureka, a small harbor and town of about 28,000 folks and rest a while.  Boy was that wrong.  We spent 8 days there playing golf, going to a performance, hitting the farmers market, Taco Tuesday at the Elks Lodge and it went on and on.  We had a great time!

We went bike riding on this cold cold day on Samoa island.  Yes, Samoa.  The towns in the area are named Trinidad and Manila.  You’re think that they could be more original than that.  But we had a good 10 mile ride.

After the ride we went to this nice seafood restaurant right on the wharf.  We watched the birds diving into the water for their dinner.  The waitress brought us ours.

Eureka has so many beautiful Victorian houses the whole place should be made an historic area.  But, this one Victorian home, the Carson Manson, is the probably one of the most beautiful homes of this type in the US.

The sign outside the mansion says that the mansion has been restored by the Ingmar group which, as I understand it is a men only social group!  They hold functions and have dinners and ……  But, at an all you can eat pork ribs dinner at the Elks Lodge the people we sat next to indicated that just recently the Ingmar group has been opened up to women.

As we understand it, the entire Eureka, Arcata, McKinnleyville has been influenced greatly but the philosophy of the Humbolt State College and SF transferree mind set and has become VERY progressive.

As an example, we went to a performance in Arcata, just outside Humbolt State by Will Durst, a presidential election satirist.

He lives in San Francisco and has very left leaning attitudes toward past presidents and presidential candidates.  He spent almost 90 minutes going over his opinion of past presidents and, more recently, the present presidential candidates.  Of course, Hillary could do little wrong and Trump received much of his humor.  Here is just a few comments from him about our illustrious Republican presidential candidate.

We had a great time at a local benefit function for a railroad restoration group.  They had a roundhouse full of old locomotives, a restored caboose and a walk through restored pullman, business and restaurant cars.  You can see the passenger cars behind the band that is playing for the diners of the Salmon, Oyster and Tuna dinners.  Lynn was enjoying herself also.

 

Lynn caught me playing with a toy the  railroad restorers had got working, a Steam Donkey, this particular one was used to power a lumber cutting machine.

Couldn’t upload this video, will keep trying.

Finally, we went to this really nice seafood restaurant in Trinidad, CA, and afterward we went for a walk on the dock.  It was foggy and calm and the Bell Buoy at the entrance of the bay was dinging soulfully in the mist.  It was sort of romantic, if you know what I mean.