With Easter taking place in the middle of our road-trip, we weren’t sure how we’d keep the tradition of an Easter brunch and hunt going, but we did manage. The kids got warmed up the night before at our friends’ house by doing egg hunts. Then the next morning we found a popular and delicious local breakfast spot in Santa Rosa:

Then we drove a few more hours up the coast and were thrilled the fog stayed away today! We loved the hundreds of rock formations with crashing waves.

And spotted harbor seals near Gualala:

Then we did our own little egg hunt on a high windy ocean bluff in Mendocino County:

It rained much of the day but we managed to find many sunny spots on the coast. After a nice Italian dinner in Fort Bragg with live music, we drove many, many hours on the extremely winding roads of US 1. We all fought back car-sickness as the road twisted and turned on the ridiculous amount of curves, with fog and deer sightings complicating things. We made it to our hotel in Fortuna- stay tuned for our visit to the Redwood National Park tomorrow!