Heading out for Thanksgiving in a Westy

Plan: Drive north and camp in beautiful places, get to around
Mendocino and turn around.

So far: Stayed at Samuel P Taylor, Salt Point, and tonight, Manchester Beach - all State Parks. Salt Point is probably about the best to date: Terraced, quiet sites with stunning views of Pacific and mountains and also trees to climb on! (sorry for lack of scenic imagery - too nice for using iPhone camera - will post from SLR soon)

Best moment: Tonight the astounding chef, Kay, managed to magic together an incredible Thanksgiving (not that we 'do' TG particularly) dinner; Indian veggie Korma and mixed rice together with mac-n-cheese-sauce with veg for the kids. After, we had homemade ginger cake and whipped cream. How this was pulled together with a two burner stove is beyond me!

Best tune: Kids singing 'jingle-bell rock' (before fighting over what are the right words).

Best drink: After leaving Samuel P Taylor, we stumbled across a little deli, in Tomales I think, just as the 1 reached the coast, anyway it sold Illy coffee, one of our favourites, so we got two lovely lattes to continue our journey with (sorry for not completing this sentence in an earlier version of this posting - Mae had managed to press 'send' on the phone whilst I was in the middle of typing!).