Oh the things we get ourselves into.

Having stormed San Fran by foot and by car Ginger and I decied that wine country was our next destination so we headed for the town of Sonoma. On the way we went to the John Muir woods, walked among the redwoods, we even hiked to one of the points of Mount Tamalpais (we could see the fog roll in over the bay, but not the bay itself), and by this point it was starting to get late.


























Now it would not be a true Team Rode trip without a random event, so as we drove through the early evening looking for a camping site we started to realized that all of the camp sites were full. So, on we drove, Ginger calling every campsite and rv park we could find a number for and me keeping a weathered eye for signs of camping. It was about 8 pm and all of the sudden we came upon what looked to be a huge RV park and signs that said camping stay in the right lane, it was like a sign from above. This campsite was not marked in any of our maps, or any of the guide books, but there it was right in front of us.
We pulled into a giant lot full of RVs and we were met by a man who gave us an odd look and asked if we were there for the race? Race, what race, we were here for the camping. He gave me another odd look and I gave him my best odd, why are you looking at me that way look. The man, who we would later find out was named Rosie, walked to the front of our car looked at the license plate then came back to the window and asked if we were really from Colorado. We said yes and then the light came on, there was a NHRA event being held right there all weekend and we had stumbled into the camping area. Rosie considered us for a while and finally said "you can camp over there, just stay out of the way and be gone by 7 am."
That was all we needed to hear, we parked our tiny 4runner in the sea of massive RVs and we did our best to blend in. We met some interesting people, learned a lot about racing and northern Californian politics and good to our word we were out of the camping area by 7 am the next morning.



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