Fun at Leggett, California

Benbow, California is halfway from Petaluma to Crescent City and was an easy drive of 150 miles. Just before we got to Benbow we drove past Leggett and a few kitschy tourist traps such as Confusion Hill and The Legend of Bigfoot. We had neglected lunch and arrived at 2:00. We figured we would head back down towards Leggett and get something to eat.

We stopped at Big Foot which amounted to nothing more than a souvenir shop and the food consisted of ice-cream sandwiches. We bypassed Confusion Hill, which I had visited in the early 1950s, (it's a place which appears to defy gravity, where water runs uphill), and continued on to Leggett.

Leggett's claim to fame is the Chandelier Tree, a 315 foot redwood tree with a hole cut out at its base where you can drive a car through. Even though the hole was cut out in the 1930s, the tree continues to grow.

Joyce at the wheel of the Subaru driving through the tree.

Joyce and Michael 

Michael on the 3-wheel bicycle driving through the tree.

Michael and the rubber chicken

The rubber chicken becomes famous, posing with other tourists.

The full length Chandelier Tree. You can see the hole at the base of the tree. The figure in front of the hole is Joyce, standing about 100 feet from the tree.

Right, we are still looking for lunch and it's getting late. None at this site, but we are told there is a place called the Peg House a couple miles up the road. For anything else we would have to drive thirty miles north or thirty miles south. Gotta be Peg House then. Two burgers, drinks, and chips - a little pricey, but really good. Black raspberry sundae for dessert. Al fresco lunch/dinner (Linner? Dunch?).

And back to the motorhome for "America's Got Talent."