Before leaving Calistoga completely we headed off to the Old Faithful Geysir where we watched the geysir spurt a couple of times.
We'd decided that Marin County looked like a fun place to spend our day, and would be an ideal spot to spend the night before heading back to San Francisco the following day. Unfortunately all didn't go to plan and we couldn't find a place to stay. So, we decided to do our Marin County, or more particularly Point Reyes Pensinsular, exploring during the day before having dinner and then looking for a motel off the highway.
We headed on to the peninsular and stopped off at Drakes Beach which was beautiful and very windy. We took a nice long walk along the beach, enjoying the feel of the wind on our faces. We stopped off at another couple of beaches on the peninsular, but they weren't as impressive.
We stopped at Inverness to collect some beers from a grocery store, and spotted a pizza place opposite which we decided to investigate for our dinner. It turned out to be tasty food and certainly set us up well for what was to turn out to be a nightmare trying to find somewhere to stay.
We headed along Highway 101, expecting to find somewhere to stay with relative ease. Of course, we hadn't remembered that the Nascar racing was happening in Sonoma, and never thought that we'd find everywhere booked up. Unfortunately that turned out to be the case and we clocked up quite some miles and time before finally finding a room in the Dollar Inn just outside Petaluma. The room was basic and the only reason that it hadn't already been let out was that it had no tv.
Our evening consisted of drinking those beers that we'd fortuitously collected at Inverness, and then packing our luggage for the flight back.
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Money in the spa pool | 
The spa pool | 
Old Faithful geysir rests | 
Old Faithful geysir I |
Old Faithful geysir II | 
A fainting goat | 
Old Faithful geysir III | 
Vineyard |
Drakes Beach, Point Reyes | 
Sand sculpture I | 
Sand sculpture II | 
Sea I |
Sea II | 
Richard and Jane | 
Families on the beach | 
Sea III |
From the end of Point Reyes peninsular | 
Across the bay |