Still, it was a long time before we attempted another vacation.  We have gone places, sure, but Always For A Reason.  Or we got in the car and just drove, having no destination and therefore never really arriving anywhere.  And along the we worked ourselves up from Motel 6 to Days Inns to Best Westerns.  The beds were bearable, they took our dog, and they provided us with a supply of small bottles of cheap shampoo, the kind we would never buy if given the choice at the drugstore.

These past five days, however, we have been vacating at an Inn in Mendocino County.  I will have more to say about Mendocino County, and the people therein at a future date, probably tomorrow.  But I wanted you to know that we had a relatively good time.  We ate fantastic food, and a lot of it.  We laughed our pants off with our friends Jimmie and Wendy.  We built two fires, walked the cliffs, and I took what are for me an inordinate number of photos, which I shall be posting shortly to Flickr.