San Franscisco to the Redwood Forests

We had a great evening with cousin Diane and her husband Casey. I visited them on their sailboat and it was really nice with all wood interior, likely a type of wood that I cannot spell. It was similar in some ways to the camper,but much more sophisticated, with radar, radios, and multiple ways to power it. I am a boat person having owned one all my adult life, but Casey is a BOAT PERSON, and I could never explain the difference due to lack of knowledge, and not knowing the ocean BOAT lingo. However we had dinner with them at the yacht club, and I do know good salmon when I eat it and a good Margarita too. They were excellent! Then we had desert at another great place. As we left the next day, we planned to visit them again on a camping trip they were taking in the same direction we were heading, but the campground was reserved to capacity, so we continued north on US 101, the coastal highway which has branches, CA highway 1. Casey had suggested a place in Napa Valley to go for a superb wine tasting, so we visited Kunde Estate Winery and it was a day when they didn't have tours scheduled for the cellar and wine making, but we did taste some really fantastic Sonoma County wine and cheese. We had to have a small bottle of the Zinfandel Port which we will save for a special occasion. Then unfortunately I let David convince me to take highway 1 to the coast to stay at a KOA on a beach on the Pacific Ocean. I enjoyed the destination, even though it had no Verizon cell availability or WiFi, however the trip there was awful, which is an inadequate word, but I try not to use those other adjectives. It was 33 miles of up to 10% grades, the worst so far by 3% and cutbacks constantly. The fastest we went in that distance was 25 mph, and the cutbacks were mostly 15 mph. It took forever to get there! I have photos of the campground in the Web photos, and we were on the beach even if it was cold again. The way back to 101 was the same type mountain highway, but with the addition of rain and giant Redwoods nearly in the road. As we reached US 101, we came to the site of the Redwood that you can drive a car through. Another photo-op we could not miss. David set the GPS to take us to the Redwood National Park to spend the night, but it turned out that the "park" is more of a forest than a park with no campgrounds found. However on the north edge of it, we came upon a really nice private campground on a river that has salmon fishing in the fall, but not in the spring. We detached the camper and tomorrow when the sun shines again, we will do some driving and hiking in the redwoods. Nearly half of two days was spent on winding roads, but we will move faster tomorrow into Oragon to see what is there.