Mendocino

We left our little tree house this morning and headed north on Highway 1 . . . neither Jon or I have ever traveled to Mendocino so we decided perhaps it would be interesting to see what was further up the coast from Sonoma.  We are staying at an inn on the ocean called Little River Inn . . .our room faces west toward the ocean and we watched the sunset from our patio this evening.  When we first arrived we took Sparta to a little beach a couple of miles away.  We didn't stay long because we were hungry so we toured the little village of Mendocino, ate a burger lunch, and then checked into our room.  Sparta had a lot of energy so we decided to take her to another beach a bit further away which was supposed to be an off leash dog beach . . . located in a place called Fort Bragg . . . it was a rough beach . . . Sparta played with some rowdy dogs and seemed to get her dog fix . . . they weren't exactly the type of dogs she is used to associating with and she knew it . . . she kept checking in with me and I got the feeling she was telling me they weren't really her kind of dogs . . .lol.

Jon and Sparta on first Mendocino beach

Sunset at the Little River Inn

Mendocino Grill . . . Sparta is hiding under the table because they lit the heater with a blow torch

 Near sunset we returned to our room and I gave Sparta a shower as she smelled like fish.  Then I took a relaxing spa bath and eventually ended up on the patio with a glass of wine to enjoy the complete sunset over the crashing waves.  This evening we ate at a restaurant, the Mendocino Grill, that served wonderful seafood stews.  We are enjoying everything . . . tomorrow we head to Napa.