Woke up this morning and grabbed breakfast at The Tides restaurant, which prior to renovations was the cafe in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” We certainly understood why, when a bird perched just outside the window and stared at us while we ate. There were beautiful views of the bay and the mud where I can only assume they harvest crab. 
After Breakfast, We headed out to see some of the roadsideamerica.com sites as well as set jitters app movie sites.
The first stop was Children’s Bell Tower. It was a very interesting site with great sadness and compassion. I do recommend visiting.
From there, we headed to Goat Rock Beach because somewhere in this trip I got wind of The Goonies movie sites and just HAD to go visit this beach where the final scene of The Goonies was filmed. I think I dressed appropriately…or at least felt like I did a decent homage to Chunk from the movie. 
With my final Goonies tribute under my belt, I was ready to return to one of the reasons I am deathly afraid of birds…Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”
We visited Bodega, CA where the Potter School House and Saint Teresa of Avila Catholic Church are located. Both of these were part of “The Birds.”
In the above photo of the church, you can even see how the shadow forms the shape of a bird. The place is scary!
Once I got my fill of the movies of my youth, I took my hubby to see the Avenue of the Giants. He likes the big trees of Northern California, so I thought it would be an amazing adventure for us to do together. I wish I would have remembered how much he does NOT like to be in the car!!! Anyway, we traveled 3 hours to the start of the southern side of the avenue. Then we started the 3 hour drive up the avenue itself; sure, one could take less time than 3 hours driving along the avenue, but then why not stay on the 101? I stopped at all the places I wanted to stop on the way down the day before, but was worried I would be late picking up the hubby. The stops were nice for stretching legs and relieving the dog, but I think they may have been too short for the hubby. I took him through the tree again like I did the day before, and he got video/photo of me driving through; he was less than impressed. We got to the north end of the avenue and jumped on the 101 to head south and west towards Mendocino. Earlier in the day, we had unofficially decided to get to Mendocino for the night. As we got off the 101 to start the winding drive along highway 1 to the coast, we drove through another big tree. Again, the hubby was less than impressed and thinking the $10 per tree was excessive. I thought it all part of the crazy adventure.
When all was said and done, we headed for the coast, driving the crazy winding road making everyone in the car a little sick from dog to human even driver. As we passed through Fort Bragg, CA, we picked up dinner and continued to Mendocino and the relaxation of my cousin’s house.
We got to my cousin’s before it started to rain for the umpteenth millionth time that day. She was busy at a meeting, but her husband was home, and allowed us to sneak the dog in a side door directly to the guest room; their cats rule the house. We brought in just what we had the energy to carry, and settled in for the night. I waited for my cousin to get home from her meeting, chatted with her briefly, and then crashed soundly to sleep. What a long day of adventuring.
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