We have been traveling up the wet coast.  That is not a typo!  It has rained some part of every day for the past week since we left Sacramento.  After we finally got the exhaust repaired in Ft Bragg, we settled in to a rainy day and as I approached the closet in the back of the bedroom I found myself with a cold wet foot.  We drove on up to Eureka and the Eureka Elks Lodge with its 32 space campground in a separate parking lot for RVs.  When we arrived the sun was out and things were drying off so up I went onto the roof with the usual repair materials all set to put and end to that nasty leak.  I know I closed up every crack and possible opening, but the rain resumed as did the leak.  Every time we have had a dry period I have applied new treatments to different area to no avail.  Today on return from touring Crescent City with its tsunami devastated harbor and then driving up into the Stout Redwood Grove on the edge of town and hiking among the giant redwoods in high top rubber boots, I stretched a tarp over an area I think is the source of the infiltration.  (In case you didn’t notice I am practicing my run on sentences)

I have a call into a mobile RV repairman, but he didn’t return the call today and my hope for his help is limited.  I am frustrated, but I know I will get this fixed too, some day.  Of course it would help if we could get someplace where it does not rain several hours of every day. 

The Towlers, founders and majority owners of City Newspaper in Rochester were reading this blog and realized that we were very near a friend of theirs from the Independent Newspaper world and they sent us email with phone numbers and such.  Wow are we ever grateful.  Kat and Doug picked us up at our coach in the Elks lot and walked us in to the Sunday Elks Brunch, they too are Elks.  Later that day with their invitation, we drove to Ferndale, a Victorian Village they call home, to see it and to pay another visit with them.  It is not necessary to replay the details, Carol may need to write a book to do that.  Suffice it to say we will delight in calling them friends and hope to come back this way when there is slightly less rain. March is usually wet and this March has been particularly rainy.  We do understand that wet and cool are normal here year round. 

We are enchanted with Humboldt County, although we did learn that others are enchanted by the good marijuana crop that is grown here, now largely legal.  We walked into a couple of shops advertising glass blowing.  Yup they blow glass, into bongs of all sorts, sizes and shapes.  I remember when we knew these as head shops.  Am I showing my age?  We backed out and decided that we really weren’t interested in blown glass any more at least until and if we get to Seattle.