The Second Foggiest Place in North America

Now there's a destination worth seeing!  Bring the camera!

Last Saturday we attempted to take the kids to the Point Reyes Lighthouse.  We were pushing the time a little so that two of them would sleep in the car for the one hour drive.  But when we got to the car, it wouldn't start.  The fan had run into the night, depleting every spare drop of power out of the battery.  By the time we found a jump and got on the road, we were pushing making it there in time to see the lighthouse before it closed.

What I didn't know was that once you get "there" (being the ranger station), it is still a 45 minute drive to the actual point, followed by a 10 minute hike to the lighthouse.  Disappointment set in, but it was sunny and beautiful at the ranger station, so we figured we'd make the drive and the hike and get a view of the lighthouse that we had been touting to the kids for the last three hours.

This is what we expected to see.  I knew the thirty flights of stairs down would be closed off.

This is what we saw.

We had spent two hours in the car driving to the second foggiest location in North America expecting to see something.  Well, we did see something.  We saw the fog.  I would not say it was raining there, but as we closed in on Point Reyes, the fog lay so thick on the car, we needed the wipers.  When we stepped out into it, we were just wet.  Not rain on the tops of our heads, but a more uniform layer of wet all over.  I should also mention that this is the windiest place on the west coast.  Bethelle and Rigby spent our adventure curled up in the double stroller to maximize their misery.  Curie seemed to enjoy herself as long as she wasn't being told where to go and what to do and what she couldn't eat.

We did finally talk the hermits out of their shell to climb on some rocks.

On the way home, we said, "Wasn't that great!  What was your favorite part?"

Oddly enough, they answered, "YES!" and told how fun it was to climb on those rocks.

Half way back to the ranger station, we diverted to this beautiful ocean beach for a few minutes.

And just before leaving the large national park, we saw this sign.

Did you know that the White House pool has public access?  Just watch the overnight parking.  Here is the White House pool, in all its glory.

Maybe being president isn't all it's cracked up to be.