scaredy, if you want to check Arcata out, fall is the best time of year up there! From your place, you can make it to Ukiah in one 9-10 hr day and stay the night there.
I would highly recommend you take this route on your last leg of the trip. Better sure to do it before dusk:
By the time you work your way outta there after having sampled in at least three wineries, you might just decide to hang it up and “retire” in Philo, Navarro or Boonville 🙂
Then spend the night in Ft Bragg and get on the Skunk train the next morning for a half-day excursion to Larkspur and back. Their “Pumpkin Express” ride is this Sunday, 10/20!
On Saturday, November 2, they’re having a “Mushroom, Wine and Beer train.” (They’re VERY generous with the wine-tasting, btw.) I don’t think kids are allowed on this trip.
The train comes back to Ft Bragg in the winter at 2:15 to 2:30 pm, at which time you can drive to Eureka/Arcata and make it there in time for early-check in 🙂
A suggestion: You can turn Veteran’s Day wknd into more days to make this trip. That’s also an EXCELLENT time to go (warm days and cool nights).
I wish I could have made it up there this fall but I had to go to flyover America, instead.
However, I’m looking forward to going to SF for X-mas week so all is not lost.
I think a change of scene will do wonders for you, scaredy. That same old daily/weekly/monthly slog from the office to the courthouse to the Little House to the Big House and back to the office eventually gets old … believe me, I KNOW :=0
