The road to Coos Bay

 28 April 11.  Howard Sublow.  We just had a fine meal at the Black Bear Diner in Rohnert Park, CA.  And, a good visit.

 Howard just graduatied from the "Skid School of Motorcycle Detailing"  :-)

  

Pretty flower outside the Diner.  Now it's time to get back to Santa Rosa and load up the XT behind the Minnie, we'll be heading home tomorrow.

 April 26th.  The Easter Bunny got lost on the way home.  He spent the night in the same RV park with us.

 Bill "Cranky" Snodgrass rode his bike over to Los Banos to join us for lunch.  Good seeing Bill!

Pat, Linda, Cranky and VSP.  Linda and Don have been friends since grammar school.  I think she started school when she was about 3 years old, and Don was a teenager :-)

 Don has eaten here many times, he knows the system real well.  You don't go hungry in the Wool Growers!

 Lunch comes with a "bottomless" jug of wine.  Very tasty stuff.  Linda thought it may have been made in the bathtub in the kitchen.

 Sort of like Sturgis, you have to be here to really experience it.  Description doesn't do it justice.

Yikes!  This looks like a pigs foot!

These are  our left over lamb chops.  The meal started with fresh bread, then homemade soup, some Basque beans, a nice lettuce salad with excellent dressing.. and a platter of French fries.  Soon came out 2 different flavors of tender pigs feet.  Then a large bowl of Lamb stew.  All this was followed by the entrees.  Pat and I both had the lamb chops.  Cranky had pork chops.  Linda had the lamb chops too, and Don had half a chicken.  Along with all the wine you wanted, they had ice cream for dessert.  Not a bad snack of lunch :-)

Packing up the left over entrees to take with us.  You weren't allowed to take the "all you can eat" sides.

Pat's mother, Pauline.  We're here in Santa Rosa for a couple days to visit with her.  She looks the same as she did on her 100th birthday!  We surprised her, she didn't know we were coming.  She had just polished of a large dinner.

Easter Sunday 2011.   We didn't take many pictures today.  Had a terrible head wind, was all over the highway.  Peggy Sue's is on The Mother Road, Route 66 in Daggett, California.  We went on by and spent the night in a flying J at Barstow.  It was a good evening and  really a good day.  Just too much wind. :-)

California doesn't have a lot of Rest Area's still open, but the ones they do have are spotlessly clean!  Was impressed with this one on I-5 heading North

Phones and GOOD water at the Rest Area

Nice Green lawns too!  They have several picnic tables that no one was using

Most of them have free dump stations

And nice trees

Skid's new Class A, pulling a Esclade pickup

Our home for the night in Santa Nella.  A nice little RV park

There's a McDonalds over there across the street!  We did move to this spot, since the WiFi was better over there

This grove of Eucalyptus would make a Panda Bear very happy!

Several trunks grew together, making this a very big tree.

Julie enjoyed having her own lawn

This McDonalds is one of VSP's destinations when he rides the back roads down here for his early morning "Senior" coffee

The picture doesn't really do it justice, but this is one HUGE Eucalyptus tree!

 This Hotel  Del Oro used to be a Ramada Inn.  I've stayed here several times on bike trips, about 600 miles from Coos Bay, so it was a good first night stop.  Now that I've discovered VSP's couch, I haven't been here at the motel

This is the Park we're in tonight.  A very nice place!

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