Prunedale to Nice, California – 10/15/2014
OCTOBER 15, 2014 (Wednesday)
On the road again! Yahoo!!!! Michael has been working so hard and now it’s done. We got finished what we could and will try to complete other things when we go back next year. We are officially on the road until at least April (with a few days back in Prunedale for a doctor appointment in November). Excited. We’re even talking about going up to St. Louis, Chicago, and parts North in March 2015.
This morning our wonderful daughter bought us breakfast. Very nice. It’s going to be strange not having her with us on the road. Today we drove to Petaluma, California to see some friends Michael has known for over 37 years – Henry and Florence. I’ve only known them for 25 years. Such nice people. Henry and Michael worked together at San Quentin. He is 85 now, and Florence is 86.
We left Prunedale around 10:00 AM and headed up to Santa Clara. Michael was driving the truck back for Aaron that we had borrowed. It sure came in handy for all the projects we did.
We got a short but nice visit in with Aaron, Arla, and the grandpuppies. They’re all doing great.
We left and drove up 101 and over the Golden Gate Bridge to Petaluma.
We stopped in Petaluma to have linner at a local Chinese restaurant close to Henry and Florence’s home.
We got to meet their two sweet dogs and caught up on happenings in everyone’s lives for the last few years. So good to see them. They both look really good. We didn’t want to tire them out but we did want a good visit since it’s been five years since we last physically saw them.
We left around 5:00 PM and headed North. I had gotten us a room at the Worldmark Clear Lake on bonus time (around $60.00 for a one bedroom).
We got into some pretty awful traffic near Santa Rosa but we were able to use the diamond lane so it helped. It was a lovely drive to Nice, California to the Worldmark Clear Lake Resort.
We were quite impressed with the resort. It was beautiful. It looked and felt like an old Spanish hacienda. Our room was huge and had a fireplace, washer/dryer – quite lovely.
We had heard the Clear Lake Resort wasn’t that great but we decided we want to go back and spend more time.