AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL!

A couple of miles south from Mendocino on Highway 01,  a scattering of dilapidated farm building remind me of Andrew Wyeth country. The thirty-five-mile drive from Mendocino to Point Arena is a journey through all the ages of American coastal architecture... from the newest ultramodern designs to a couple of colonial buildings and more than a few victorian houses that are mostly being kept in good shape... some of them being used as bread-and-breakfast inns. Some of the old bridges, like the one across the Albion River,  were very well built and are likely to last for a long time if an earthquake doesn’t come along and shake them down. At Point Arena the old lighthouse and the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands have been added to the the California Coastal National Monument.