On to Monterey Bay... to a Room with a View after Many Gorgeous Views along the Coast!

So, we stopped at this quaint little place in Willits.  And why Willits, well there was a cool restaurant we'd eaten at the year before and wanted to have brekky there again, Ardella's..  Yummy place... and, the next morning, we set out for that yummy food and were greeted with the sign "We'll be open soon"... SHOOT!  We were highly disappointed... Ate instead a another nice little place and rewarded ourselves with a geocache in the neighborhood... was a very clever hide...but we found it!

  Left Willets and we meandered through towns and a couple bigger cities off 101.  Jerry was absolutely tickled cuz he reached an all time high for miles per gallon in the Passat... over 57!  Woot Woot!!! And then, of course we reached the famous landmark: The Golden Gate Bridge!

Decided to splurge and got a nice room in Monterey Bay with a view.  So peaceful to hear the waves softy landing on the shore and in the distance, also softly if you can believe that, the sea lions were talking... since they were way down on the wharf, it was not obnoxious in our area.  

We decided to go to Ash Wednesday Services here... found a church that said it was 7 minutes away.  Score, we could go for a walk and then to church and then a meal... Guess what, I was reading the time in a car not walking... it was a 30 minute walk... and after our leisurely walk in the area, we had to high tail it quickly to church.  Got there and they had speakers set up outside... it was a full house... and there were lots of us outside... was still nice, other than as the sun set, it got a bit chilly.  

Left, had our dinner (unfortunately, we are not finding any places where we did not like the food... so we tend to eat it all!) and headed home for the mile walk... Had a great nights sleep and woke to a beautiful sunrise... and a visitor on our deck.  ahhhhh, this is the life!

 Good Morning Monterey Bay

Our visitor... and no, I was/did not feed him !