Road Trip - Day 3 - Mendocino

From there we continued onto artsy Mendocino - which we had heard plenty about and was highly recommended. It was a lovely town and we had the best time walking around the main cliffs, around the quaint buildings and shops. Stopping into an organic pizzeria and ice cream parlor I almost lost my mind how good and fresh it was. So much so that P took pics of me enjoying myself!

After walking the cliffs behind the big jazz music festival tents that were set up we decided to drive up to the Lighthouse and trail up the road about 20 minutes near Caspar. This was a long walk, but very nice and we saw deer.


After that we decided to stay in Mendocino after all and drove straight to the oldest and largest (although small, by most standards) hotel there: The Mendocino Hotel. It wasn't cheap, the room was smaller than anything I'd ever had, no TV, and you had to share bathrooms and showers down the hall, but it had a magnificent decor, old bar down below, and a wonderful patio that overlooked the cliffs and festival tents across the streets and big, cozy white robes to wear and lounge around in.

We found the Irish pub a couple blocks away (there's always one everywhere in the world we go to) and enjoyed a beer and cocktail before retiring the night. It's interesting how much tourist traffic is there in the town during the day, but by nightfall it became a ghost town as most tourists opt to drive within an hour for cheaper hotels. So at the pub we were mostly with the locals - an entirely different feel.