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Mendocino county - A Day Trip

Saturday brought an early morning fog typical of late summer in Northern California and we decided to hit the road to take in sights in our neighborhood - that being something in a couple hundred mile radius.  Oh the joys of driving the American highways and byways.  After traveling for 10 km an hour on average for the last month in a cramped vehicle in the disaster that is India, I was itching to let the six cylinders of our mini SUV open up and take me for a ride. So we settled on several spots in Mendocino County (200 miles due north of us) to check out a few items not previously visited after hearing about it from some friends who recently did. Heading around 70 miles north out of San Francisco on the 101, you drive into the town of Ukiah.  Considered one of the most livable cities in America it is a town built on lumber - industry that is. We broke journey here to visit a Buddhist monastery called 'city of ten thousand Buddhas...