Day 14 - Mendocino

I have wifi! Well, I have Starbucks, they have wifi. Starbucks here is weird - unlike in the UK where they have an endless trail of temporary people working there, here it seems to be quite a good, well paid, stable job. As a result, people work in the same Starbucks for years and get to know the punters really well, so it's more like a local cafe than a soulless chain. Well, it remains a soulless chain but where everybody knows your name, bit like Cheers.

These are a couple of photos of Mendocino I took yesterday when the weather was nice:

Today it's super foggy so I'm not sure I'll be able to see much. 

Yesterday I had clam chowder in a bread bowl, something I missed out on in San Francisco. I bought some chowder (like a creamy potatoey fishy soup) and a sourdough bread roll, combined the two and hey presto! San Francisco special, only a couple hundred miles up the road.

While I'm in this Starbucks I am planning the next section of my trip - I'm going up to Portland and Seattle and back down again (inland) which is a really long way so I need to plan where I'm going to stop overnight. 

I do feel like I'm missing a trick though - when I got here a random lady (Desperate Housewives stylee) started asking me questions (for some reason this is stranger than me asking her questions - nobody likes a weirdo) and I guess I didn't give her enough because she went on to talk to every other person that came in until she got chatting to a guy in a moustache who she eventually ensnared. They ended up sitting all over each other and then sneaking off to "get some lunch" It was a like an odd fast forwarded Discovery Channel special on middle aged mating.