We knew we would stay in at least one or two Courtyard hotels.  They have a breakfast buffet where you make your own waffle.  But recently they have been remaking them and removing the buffets and the waffle makers.  Bummer…

Being two weeks into the trip, we needed to do some laundry.   Last night we stayed in a Comfort Inn.  We picked it part because the web site said they have a laundry room.  They do not.  But they have waffles!

Today we are at another Courtyard. On check-in, we asked for the location of the laundry room.  They told us it was out of order.  But… they have not received the latest Courtyard corporate makeover, so, they have waffles!

So for some reason, you can’t have laundry and waffles in the same place.  Who knows why…

Anyway, this is not something you see everyday:

And of course, when we got back from having dinner with our friends, we peeked at the laundry room and realized they have two machines, only one of which is out of order!

That aside, we had a fun day today.  We drove from Eureka, CA to Medford, OR.  That’s a little under two hundred miles many of which are tight and twisty running through the forest.  We would have expected slow overall speeds but we did the whole thing in four hours including a lunch stop.

As you come out of Eureka the geography and foliage change quite significantly.  You suddenly feel like you are in the Northwest.  You see many fewer deciduous trees and many more evergreens.  You start to see the north-south ravines we have in Washington.  And drive-up espresso stands are on (seemingly) every corner.

All told, we spent 15 days in California and covered about 2,200 miles in the state.  We’re over 2,800 so far.