Luck and Rain for My Mother the Car

Blowin' ya a kiss from the road!

Hello Fellow Travelers!!! Love and dedication to our follower Candy, Happy Birthday! Sun salutations in the rain today for you, friend, under a redwood tree along the Redwood Highway!

Coming to you today from Arcata, California, we shoulda known with Andrea Bocelli singing from the CD player E Chiove (And it Rains)yesterday we were in for joy... Luck and Rain for Penzy and PJ is like eating dessert first!

But lets catch up.

Racing like a couple of draft dodgers tearing straight through San Francisco on Sunday, (more like a stammer in summer) We made it across the bridge with Macky panting "what's the hurry?" As PJ replied, "I'm sitting in a puddle!" Here's why Exactly. Don'tever eat oatmeal while driving! It sticks as it drips forming a tenacious mess from chin to seat.

It was hot in Geyersville, as Penzy noted, Hot and no Guys! But we meandered through the old vineyards up to River Rock Casion. This joint gets an unenthusiastic one thumb up. Machines tight, bathrooms messy. Good Chinese food however at the digs there. Yet by the time we hit the seats of the Saturn, 10:30 ish, tired and cranky, no way were going to car camp in the generator-rattling parking garage.

"We're outahere!" PJ and Penzy squeeled and rambled down the road to casino 2, Coyote Valley, off the 20, near Ukiah.

Two thumbs up for this small but friendly casino. Besides Penzy's luck turned gold here! "Now we don't have to sell My Mama's Cookies!" PJ laughed. Played til 2 a.m., here's the view from our "room" window. Macky, hungover the next morning... We headed out after a hearty plate of ham and eggs, which came with a five dollar play "This slot machine!" PJ pointed as Penzy shuffled over with eyes the size of her favorite martini olives. We played ROAD TRIP! Won gas money and cashed out and skedaddled , A sign that tickled us as we headed out to Willits and casino #3. Here we met Bill the manager. "In the gaming business for 19 years!" He didn't know who he was trying to flirt with. No luck, buddy, all the way around!

Back on the road to Fort Bragg, Penzy storied about Mary and Bud, two young lovers who drove this road to camp at the beach year after year. He loved to fish and she loved to get out of the kitchen!

Here's the Puddin' Creek Bridge Built to serve railroad and then logging trucks, it took 8 years to clear the rock below, around 1872. Walked out on it as Penzy asked, "But where's the casino?" a nice place to visit

Last night until midnight...Blue Lake Casino, off the 299, we'd gambled here before, but now, what an upgrade!!! Beautiful restaurant, we enjoyed a good steak sandwich. We played the 21 table. Penzy said "I'll kick your butt!" to PJ. And she did, but both left winners with grins.

Now we gotta get on the road... With good windshield wipers and a wet dog...what more do you need but another casino and some surf action soon enough. With the finest oil for any car, Pennzoil and what was the grade? Oh yeah, 5/30...the martini hour!

Quote of the day, an oldie but a goodie and quite paraphrased from the Ecclesiate: EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY!