Bear River casino was a fun stop.  We spent the morning before leaving playing jacks or better poker.  It was great fun and I hit 4 dueces for 400 Nicole’s.  Not sure how much that is but Bunny told me we came out $ 10 ahead for the stop.  We left the casino toward a town famous for its Victorian style houses.  Ferndale is a Wonderful little town with many things it’s famous for besides having many many Victorian style houses.  Several movies were filmed there and the guy who does a food network show called dinning and dives ( or something like that) is from here.  We walked the town, ate at the omelette restaurant, and daydreamed about moving there. 
From there we drove thru some redwoods to Leggett.  From there we leave 101 and start the drive down the California coast on the famous hwy 1.  That’s when the trip took a turn turn turn for a change.  It would be an understatement to say the road is curvy.  My arms and shoulders got soar from the back and forth with the steering wheel. While it was tough on me driving a 25 ft Rv thru these curves, it was even tougher being the passenger watching and enduring the back and forth.  It probably was as bad as being on a rocking ship.  After 53 miles we arrived in beautiful little coastal town called Mendocino.  We were driving around the town wondering where we were gonna spend the night.  We were looking over the beautiful coast and we met the town ambassador.  Madison proceed to welcome us with fascinating stories about him and the town.  After an hour of stories he invited us to park our RV outside his house for the night.  We got back into town and found a vehicle already parked there so we stopped at the market for food and found a spot for the night behind the store.