Day 3, Back Down To San Francisco
 
 
Sebastopol_Inn.JPG (35608 bytes) Sebastopol_Inn2.JPG (37327 bytes) Sebastopol_Inn_key.JPG (26791 bytes) The day began in Sebastopol, California in the Russian River Valley. Sebastopol is in the Sonoma wine country just west of Napa...
   
Lunch at the Greenhouse in Sebastopol...
 
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Sebastopol_face.JPG (19436 bytes) A local dummy...
 
We met this accordion player on a side street that led to where a little street festival was going on in downtown Sebastopol. He was entertaining himself while his wife shopped the local boutiques. We started talking accordions and about the 2nd Annual Cotati Accordion Festival that was just 10 miles away. Chieko did not yet know that we were heading toward Cotati for a reason, though she did kind of look at me funny after "Cotati" was mentioned in conjunction with "accordion"... Chieko browsed the local boutiques for a while and then we headed straight for Cotati...
 
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The 2nd Annual Cotati Accordion Festival
www.cotatifest.com
 
This was truly accordion heaven!  The main stage featured a yodeling cowboy singer accordion player, there were scores of tents with accordions from all over the world, and nutty presidential candidate Ralph Nader even made an appearance - or, rather, an interruption...
 
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Bogeda.JPG (51820 bytes) Bogeda_church.JPG (43336 bytes) Bogeda. We stopped here for coffee before heading back down Highway 1 toward San Francisco. At this point we were about 50 miles north of San Francisco...
 
Highway 1, down the coast toward San Francisco. The range of landscapes on this relatively short drive is stunning...
 
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Muir Point...
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Highway 1 merges with Highway 101 just north of the Golden Gate...
 
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Once again the Golden Gate Bridge was shrouded in fog...
 
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Highway101_South_SF.JPG (33635 bytes) Highway101_South_SF2.JPG (45376 bytes) Back in San Francisco...
 
Up and down Lombard St...
 
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SF_BOA.JPG (39362 bytes) SF_BOA2.JPG (31231 bytes) The BOA tower...
 
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Japan Town and the Isobune Sushi Restaurant - the original "Sushi Boat" restaurant...
 
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After diner at Isobune I drove Chieko back down to San Jose then I checked in at the Best Western Mountain View Inn. The next day would be spent around Palo Alto before flying back to Seattle in the late afternoon. My eyes were "good tired" from seeing so much today...