Paused in Petaluma

How ironic it was to talk about chainsaws in the blog on Sunday and to be awakened by the sound of chain saws dropping trees near the trailer on Monday morning.  The park we were in at Willits had a bunch of old oak trees, one of which had broken off in a storm and speared through a trailer a couple of weeks earlier.

So the park had hired a crew to drop the remaining hazard trees and they started Monday morning.  Of course, we were not told about this when we checked in.  Long story short; we talked to the tree fallers and determined that we should move the trailer, and fast.  So did our fastest hook-up and decided to leave a day early.  It was a pleasant drive, and we stopped in Ukaih for breakfast.

We arrived to a very nice KOA in Petaluma, California and we will be here for several days as we visit Fort Ross on the Coast and take a ferry across the bay to San Francisco.  It was a quiet night and nice morning here in Petaluma--no chainsaws!

Since we moved ahead a day, we decided to break up our very long day from Petaluma to Pismo Beach with a stop south of San Jose.  Two 150 mile days sounds better than a three hundred mile day to us.

Neil took part of Monday night to upgrade the HP Netbook to Windows 7 thanks to the image file that Skyler Finney created for him while we were in Molalla.  It looks like it is going to be a great operating system on the Netbook, which he uses for all of the blog and internet work so far.  It will take some time for him to get all of the programs reloaded, but he was able to use it for this posting, so he is making progress.  We have heard good things about Windows 7, so we got a multi user upgrade that will allow us to upgrade the laptop and the desktop at home next spring.

We have been using Safeway stores for most of our shopping and getting ten cent off gas credits as a result.  We have also been getting gas at Costco when Safeways are not available.

Thanks for visiting,

Neil and Pamela