I just wanna drive my beautiful machine up north on some Sonoma Country road (Jimmy Webb)

First stop - Air BnB in Santa Rosa (the old school house on right). We shared with geckos, a hummingbird, chickens (4) and turkeys. No squirrel sightings yet, or banana slugs.

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Sonoma Country has not disappointed. No siree. From the beautiful coastline around Bodega Bay, to the Russian River, and Armstrong Woods' redwood trees to the house coffee and slice of pizza at the Gold Coast Coffee & Bakery - all has been te pai kē!

Riding the 101 north has been a blast (driving has not been stressful - courteous drivers mostly, even though they are driving way over the speed limits). 

Now we've moved down the Pacific coast a spell to Mill Valley/San Francisco for a few days. 

Some highlights thus far:

Kiwis spotted in Sonoma County

Bodega Bay was the location for The Birds

Paparazzi visit Bodega Bay

Armstrong Woods - fire damage obvious as
the flames went pretty high up the trees

Beware of snakes Jacky

Told you!

Keep truckin', like the do-dah man

Love and peace - Wozza

Living in America (ow!) (James Brown)

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Day one and day last in NZ overlapped as it will do when you charge hell for leather across the international dateline. The epic journey to eventually give Samantha away (symbolically you understand) began, er, today - car journey to Ashurst to drop off Laney, Jade dropped us at Palmerston North airport, plane ride to Auckland, bigger plane ride from Auckland to San Francisco, rental car (Alamo were terrific) to Santa Rosa and this cute little Air BnB cabin...

The owners' recommended Mary's Pizza Shack and so off we pootled to have a lovely meal and our first questions from our waiter about - Where are you guys from? leading to - What do New Zealanders really think about America?

I said, "My best man 41 years ago was from Seattle, and we love Andrew". He smiled.

We're exploring/enjoying Santa Rosa for a few days. Updates to follow.

Love and peace - Wozza